Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,[2] Rubinius seeks to
"provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."[3]
Goals
Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.[4]
It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.
Sponsorship
From 2007 to 2013, Engine Yard funded one full-time engineer to work exclusively on Rubinius.[5] Evan Phoenix now works at HashiCorp.[6][7]
PowerPC64 support
Since version 2.4.0, support on PowerPC64 is enabled.[8]
↑Nutter, Charles (April 27, 2008). "Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls". Retrieved February 22, 2009. Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible.
