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by The_rationalist 1520 days ago
yes shopify runs on truffleruby. It is the fastest ruby VM by far and can seamlessly call state of the art Java libraries. GraalVM is the VM to rule them all and unify currently incompatible billions of dollars libraries ecosystems. Despite being the computer science breakthrough of the decade, people are not getting it yet.
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> yes shopify runs on truffleruby

That's incorrect.

Shopify does not run on TruffleRuby.
If not...then why? If TruffleRuby is such a boost to performance...
>If TruffleRuby is such a boost to performance...

TruffleRuby doesn't run complex Rails App yet. That is still a goal / target.