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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by brightball on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:52PM (#36936388)
This is actually one of the reasons I was drawn to Ruby over Python. Ruby also has the GIL but jRuby is an excellent option when needed.
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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by antod on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:20PM (#36936588)
I wonder what lead to JRuby attracting support while Jython not? I know the Jython creator went on to other things (was it eg IronPython for dotnet?). I suppose it was the inverse with dotnet - eg IronPython surviving while IronRuby seems dead.

Is it just down to corporate sponsorship?

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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by brightball on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:21PM (#36937049)
JRuby has been pretty actively maintained for about 15 years and had a big release this year.

It’s an impressive project.

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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by krylon on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:41AM (#36940408)
I looked into it a long time ago (~10-12 years?), and was disappointed JRuby could not use extensions written in C. It's not surprising in retrospect, for obvious reasons, but has there been some progress in this area?
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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by empthought on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:19PM (#36938137)
Twitter used JRuby and invested heavily for a time.
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