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You have his name slightly wrong, it was Chris Seaton.

Here was the announcement:

https://twitter.com/flavorjones/status/1600436490885947393

thank you for the correction! typing with a hand injury today :-/

There are still folks working on TruffleRuby at Shopify.

so sad, I had no idea. We lost a brilliant mind...

Chris Seaton

Thank you.

Looks like it’s still a WIP

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/commits?author=eregon

With due respect to the tireless efforts of the TruffleRuby team TruffleRuby always seemed fated to be forever almost ready. I first came across it in 2013, I think it was, but there was always a not-quite-ready factor. If I remember the show-stopper was that it was unlikely to ever be Rails compatible but I may be wrong.

https://ruby.social/@eregon/109280839376585363

Tl;Dr it runs rails for a while already, it even runs mastodon.

Oh, yikes, I didn't realize this. Felt like I had seen him around on the site just yesterday :(