Ruby Weekly issue 798 covers several notable items: Matz has built Spinel, an ahead-of-time self-hosting compiler for a Ruby subset that emits C for native binaries using Prism and type inference; IRB 1.18.0 releases with a new ASCII banner, Prism migration, and improved syntax highlighting; Mustermann 4.0 brings significant performance improvements to the string pattern matching library used by Sinatra, Hanami, and Grape; Perron 1.0 launches as a Rails-based static site generator supporting Markdown, CSV, JSON, and YAML content; and the Ruby on Rails Community Survey 2026 is open for responses.
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