http://simonwillison.net/2007-12-26T12:09:42+00:00Simon Willison2007-12-26T12:09:42+00:002007-12-26T12:09:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/26/pragdave/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/12/ruby-19right-fo.html">Ruby 1.9 - Right for You?</a></strong></p> Dave Thomas on the just-released Ruby 1.9. It’s a development release that breaks backwards compatibility in a few minor ways, but new features include the YARV virtual machine (hence significant speed improvements) and unicode support via associating encodings with bytestrings. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bytestrings">bytestrings</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dave-thomas">dave-thomas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rubi19">rubi19</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unicode">unicode</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yarv">yarv</a></p>