"... hits C performance for many tasks"
Really?
particular improvements that come closer to C are related to string operations and regex
https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimen...
Wow
Really?
https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimen...
https://www.fastruby.io/blog/assets/images/RRBPerfHistory_72...
Then in 3.2, ruby released YJIT which improved median rails response time by about 100%
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/easydatawarehousing/ruby_m...
It's kind of a golden era for rubyists that stuck it out. Beautiful maintainable code that hits C performance for many tasks.