Top 8 Ruby Compiler Projects

Opal

36 4,805 9.0 Ruby

Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript

Project mention: RubyJS-Vite | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15

It's been a long time dream for me since about 2013 when I started getting deep into Ruby and Rails, to be able to write Ruby code for the frontend instead of JavaScript. I was a lover and adopter of CoffeeScript (which had it's flaws and imperfections), but that mostly got killed by ES6. I wrote some PoCs with Opal[1] that felt pretty good to write, but the overhead was rough (this was many years ago so things might be different now) and I never really felt like I didn't have to know about or care about the underlying javascript. I tend to discard leaky abstractions as I feel they often add more complexity than they were meant to cover in the first place.
Has anybody used this or Opal or anything else? What is the state of "write your frontend in Ruby" nowadays?
[1]: https://github.com/opal/opal

natalie

11 906 10.0 Ruby

a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++ (by natalie-lang)

Project mention: Natalie – a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-24

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
yjit

9 622 4.7 Ruby

Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby
tenderjit

10 417 7.5 Ruby

JIT for Ruby that is written in Ruby
fast

2 251 6.2 Ruby

Find in AST - Search and refactor code directly in Abstract Syntax Tree as you do with grep for strings (by jonatas)
wok

1 24 0.0 Ruby

Compiler that has been integrated into Okami now
typeless

4 17 10.0 Ruby

an interpreter for λ-calculus implemented in ruby (by gurbaaz27)
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
cbfc

1 2 0.0 Ruby

an optimizing brainfuck compiler and interpreter

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).