Concurrent Ruby
crystal
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Concurrent Ruby
- A Tour of Go Examples in Ruby
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Exploring concurrent rate limiters, mutexes, semaphores
After this, I took a look at the semaphore class in the popular library, concurrent-ruby to see how they implement it, and I learnt about something new: condition variables. And Ruby comes with this included!
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My Adventure with Async Ruby
https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby has great docs if someone is looking for alternatives.
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My Adventure With Async Ruby
I wonder how this would compare to using concurrent-ruby under ruby 2.7, especially in a real-world setting (where the calls are actually to external services that return and buffer data, instead of just sleep). The author says that he's felt that ruby threads "feel easy to mess up," but I've found that concurrent-ruby makes it pretty simple, and performant enough even with the GIL.
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Using Concurrent::Promise while rescuing exceptions in Ruby
As I could not find a clear example about how to rescue exceptions from Concurrent::Promises (part of the Concurrent Ruby gem ) I read through the documentation and here are two examples: one that documents success case and one that shows what is happening when there is an error.
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Ask HN: Any efforts to remove the GIL for Ruby?
In a sense the GIL (or actually GVL as it's called in current ruby versions) has already been removed for ruby.
It's only the original MRI Ruby that still has it several over Ruby implementations already removed it. e.g. JRuby.
Concurrent-Ruby[1] is probably a good place to start if you want to work with GVL free ruby on JRuby. It's quite well supported and is currently used by Rails.
If you just want async or non-blocking IO I'd take a look at the Async Gem[2]. It looks pretty solid in Ruby > 3.0 and it's been invited by Matz to be part of the stdlib, which I think is a pretty good endorsement.
For MRI itself I don't think it's likely they'll ever remove the GVL. Ractors are probably a better solution for CPU concurrency in the long run, although I think they're pretty experimental currently.
1. https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby
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Intro to Thread-safety in Ruby on Rails
I like how the article exposes you to tools to prove/disprove the problem. I would have hoped it introduced to tools like concurrent ruby and the use of atomics like u/Freeky already mentioned though.
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How to get results from Concurrent::Promise::all?
Using conccurrent-ruby, how can I execute a set of promises and then get the results?
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Ruby 3.1.0 Released
I’d highly recommend the concurrent-ruby gem that has implementations of various metaphors of concurrency, from async to promises, as well as edge features such as actors.
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Using Thread.new
You may want to consider using something like concurrent-ruby that provides nice abstractions over multithreading.
crystal
- A Language for Humans and Computers
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Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
27. Crystal - $77,104
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org
# A very basic HTTP server
- Is Fortran "A Dead Language"?
- Choosing Go at American Express
- Odin Programming Language
- I Love Ruby
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory
Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago.
If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly ruby-like in syntax, style, and developer ergonomics.[^2] Although it's an entirely different language. Also a tiny community.
[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
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What languages are useful for contribution to the GNOME project.
Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well.
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Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework
Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything.
My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting.
I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really interesting and am hoping it has its own "ruby on rails" moment that helps the language reach a tipping point in popularity. All the beauty of ruby with all of the speed of Go (and then some, it often compares favorably to languages like rust in benchmarks).
What are some alternatives?
Async Ruby - An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Celluloid - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
EventMachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
go - The Go programming language
Polyphony - Fine-grained concurrency for Ruby
Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
render_async - render_async lets you include pages asynchronously with AJAX
mint-lang - :leaves: A refreshing programming language for the front-end web
ruby-vips - Ruby extension for the libvips image processing library.
Odin - Odin Programming Language