On: Space Monkey dumps Python for Go

[leccine]

There are certain things that you can't really avoid using an interpreted language. How would you go around Ruby's GIL for example when you specifically need multiple threads (not talking about green threads). I agree that some of the stuff is on the developers developing libraries and performance is not kept in mind but there are hard limits you can't really do anything about.

[dragonwriter → leccine]

> How would you go around Ruby's GIL for example when you specifically need multiple threads (not talking about green threads).

Using any of the Ruby implementations that don't have a GIL. Notably, JRuby, MacRuby/RubyMotion, and (I think) Rubinius.

[steveklabnik → dragonwriter]

Rubinius does not have a GIL, you are correct.

[pjmlp → leccine]

JRuby, RubyMotion