Rubinius 1.0 Released

Along with the JRuby 1.5.0 release earlier this week, Rubinius has hit 1.0!  This is a huge milestone for the Rubinius project.

What is Rubinius?  It's an MRI 1.8.7 compatible Ruby implementation that takes a bit of a different approach.  Where MRI interprets (with 1.8.x) or compiles to bytecode (with 1.9.x), Rubinius plugs into LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime.  This, combined with fast native function calls, should means Rubinius is much, much faster than MRI or even JRuby.

For more details, see the release announcement.