logoalt Hacker News

nonatoday at 9:48 AM0 repliesview on HN

This is really cool, I've been looking for an AOT compiler for ruby for a long time.

The lack of eval/meta-programming fallbacks is a shame though, but I guess they kept the focus on a small, performant subset.

It would be nice to have gems compiled with this AOT compiler that can interact well with MRI.

When it comes to packaging/bundling more standard ruby (including gems) we'll still need tebako, kompo, ocran – and then there's a bunch of older projects that did similar things too like ruby-packer, traveling ruby, jruby warbler etc.

It's nice to have another option, but still, I'm hoping for a more definitive solution with better developer UX.