Have you used it over the last few years? It has it been rapidly improving, mainly because Shopify put a team full time on it. It doesn’t take a lot of people to optimize a VM/interpreter it just has to be the right people.
And the question is always “fast enough for what?” Different languages are more suitable for different types of projects. I wouldn’t code a rendering engine in Ruby but for web apps it’s amazing.
And the question is always “fast enough for what?” Different languages are more suitable for different types of projects. I wouldn’t code a rendering engine in Ruby but for web apps it’s amazing.