Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler | Hacker News

Hacker News discussed Spinel, a new Ruby ahead-of-time compiler that uses Prism to parse Ruby and emit C.

Commenters debated whether Ruby’s dynamic features make practical native compilation feasible.

Common patterns like `send`, `method_missing`, `define_method`, and especially `eval` were called out as major obstacles.

The thread reflects growing interest in faster Ruby via native code, while underscoring the limits of whole-program static optimization.