Ask HN: Any efforts to remove the GIL for Ruby?

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  • 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.

    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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    An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby. (by socketry)

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