Polyphony
crystal
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Polyphony
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Should You Be Scared of Unix Signals?
When using green threads/fibers/coroutines, an interesting technique to make signal handling safer is to run the signal handler asynchronously on a separate fiber/green thread. That way most of the problems of dealing with signals go away, and there's basically no limitation on what you can do inside the signal handler.
I've successfully used this technique in Polyphony [1], a fiber-based Ruby gem for writing concurrent programs. When a signal occurs, Polyphony creates a special-purpose fiber that runs the signal handling code. The fiber is put at the head of the run queue, and is resumed once the currently executed fiber yields control.
[1] https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
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Polyphony 1.4 Released
Read the release notes here: https://github.com/orgs/digital-fabric/discussions/110 The Polyphony docs: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/polyphony The Polyphony repository: https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
- Polyphony: Fine-Grained Concurrency for Ruby
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Polyphony 0.99 released. Last release before 1.0!
Polyphony is a gem for building highly-concurrent Ruby programs. It utilizes Ruby fibers to provide a high-performance safe environment for launching any number of concurrent operations. Under the hood, Polyphony employs io_uring to maximize I/O performance (libev is used on platforms other than recent Linux kernels).
- Polyphony – Fine-grained concurrency for Ruby
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About that monkey-patching business...
Is monkey-patching inherently bad? Should its use make Polyphony illegitimate? These are the questions I'm exploring in my latest article.
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Async Ruby
how is this diff from: https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
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Embracing Infinite Loops with Ruby and Polyphony
Infinite loops are great for expressing long-running concurrent operations. In this article I’ll discuss the use of infinite loops as a major construct when writing concurrent apps in Ruby using Polyphony. I’ll show how infinite loops differ from normal, finite ones; how they can be used to express long-running tasks in a concurrent environment; and how they can be stopped. Read it now!
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What's new in Polyphony and Tipi - August 2021 edition
Polyphony is a library for writing highly concurrent Ruby apps. Polyphony harnesses Ruby fibers and a powerful io_uring-based I/O runtime to provide a solid foundation for building high-performance concurrent Ruby apps.
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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
> Curious if there’s anything public about improving ruby performance from the I/O angle mentioned in the post.
I'm currently working on Polyphony [0], a Ruby gem for writing highly-concurrent Ruby apps. It uses Ruby fibers under the hood, and does I/O using io_uring (on Linux, there is also a libev-based backend).
[0] https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
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
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- 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.
Concurrent Ruby - Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.
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
Celluloid - Actor-based concurrent object framework 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
Opal-Async - Non-blocking tasks and enumerators for Opal.
Odin - Odin Programming Language