Matz gets together with Anthropic Claude to create an experimental ahead of time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations Yukihiro Matsumoto better known as Matz is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic Claude Code. Spinel, which is on GitHub under the MIT license, works by parsing Ruby code into AST abstract syntax tree files, then converting it to C code for compilation by a standard C compiler. In Matzs tests, Spinel compiled code runs approximately...
