Anybody keeping up with TruffleRuby?

oracle / truffleruby

A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM.

TruffleRuby is the GraalVM high-performance implementation of the Ruby programming language.

Getting Started

TruffleRuby comes in two distributions:

Native Standalone: This only contains TruffleRuby in the Native configuration.
JVM Standalone: This only contains TruffleRuby in the JVM configuration This includes support for other languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python and WebAssembly.

You can install either of those:

Via your Ruby manager/installer (RVM, rbenv, chruby, asdf, ruby-build, ruby-install). We recommend trying TruffleRuby dev builds which contain the latest fixes and improvements (replace VERSION by dev).

Native Standalone:

RVM:    $ rvm install truffleruby # or truffleruby-head
rbenv:  $ rbenv install truffleruby-VERSION
asdf:   $ asdf install ruby truffleruby-VERSION
chruby: $ ruby-install truffleruby
        $ ruby-build truffleruby-VERSION ~/.rubies/truffleruby-VERSION

JVM Standalone:

rbenv:  $ rbenv install truffleruby+graalvm-VERSION
asdf:   $ asdf install ruby truffleruby+graalvm-VERSION
chruby: $ ruby-install truffleruby-graalvm
        $ ruby-build truffleruby+graalvm-VERSION ~/.rubies/truffleruby+graalvm-VERSION

In CI with GitHub Actions, see Testing TruffleRuby in CI…

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TruffleRuby aims to:
Run idiomatic Ruby code faster
Run Ruby code in parallel
Boot Ruby applications in less time
Execute C extensions in a managed environment
Add fast and low-overhead interoperability with languages like Java, JavaScript, Python and R
Provide new tooling such as debuggers and monitoring
All while maintaining very high compatibility with the standard implementation of Ruby

It's such an interesting project in Ruby world. I'm curious if anybody is keeping up with it and might have some "latest opinions" on how close it is to being practical to use in production and what your general thoughts are on the project.