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>to present one data point in favor of maintaining a pure Ruby codebase

Chris Seaton has been stating this for over 5 years. It is unfortunate this mental model has never caught on in Rails.

Evan Phoenix is saying it for even longer, and created rubinius as a means to prove it :) (it has since been abandoned, but Chris's truffleruby ported rubinius core and stdlib implementations, so it's great that they've all been feeding each other for quite a while)

Oh yes. It is unfortunate even when something is "right" or "correct" it doesn't means the world will move in that direction.

Hopefully now Shopify has enough resources to push this through.

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