Ruby Rogues

The Evolution of Opal With Elia Schito - RUBY 581


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Elia Schito works at Nebulab. He is a Ruby enthusiast and move to a more supporting role for Opal development, mainly reviewing and merging PRs, handling releases, and so on. He returns to the show to talk about Opal and its new features. It is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. They also talk about the difference between Opal and ruby-wasm. Additionally, they discuss the e-commerce platform, "Solidus".
Features recently added to Opal
  • freezing
  • parallel compilation
  • async/await support
  • native promises
  • io (gets/puts)
  • bundle size reduction
  • readability of compiled JS
  • ruby 3.2 support (coming around Christmas 2022)
  • binding.irb

Sponsors
  • Chuck's Resume Template
  • Developer Book Club
  • Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links
  • Opal 💎
  • GitHub - joeldrapper/phlex
  • Try Opal: Browser compiler and REPL
  • WebAssembly and advanced regular expressions with Opal
  • TryRuby/try_ruby.js.rb at master · ruby/TryRuby · GitHub
  • Phlex
  • Solidus
  • GitHub - opal/paggio: Ruby, HTML and CSS at war
  • Opal Blog 
  • TryRuby playground
  • Elia Schito 
  • Twitter: @elia
  • - Top End Devs
  • Ruby Delights Built Into The Language
  • GitHub - nebulab/rails_console_toolkit: Configurable Rails Console Helpers

Picks
  • Charles - The Game | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
  • Charles - TriDot: Home
  • Charles - 1923 (TV Series 2022–2023) - IMDb
  • Elia - Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
  • Elia - The waning days of DEI's dominance
  • Elia - nd podcast Archives - New Discourses
  • Valentino - Ruby Delights Built Into The Language
  • Valentino - Shopify’s latest thread on performance metrics from their Ruby 3.2 efforts


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