DevOps Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations Yukihiro Matsumoto - better known as Matz - is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic's Claude Code. Spinel, which is on GitHub  under the MIT license, works by parsing Ruby code into AST (abstract syntax tree) files, then converting it to C code for compilation by a standard C compiler. In Matz’s tests, Spinel-compiled code runs approximately 11.6 times faster than MiniRuby - a stripped-down Ruby build - using the in-development Roby 4.1.0.  The output is C code, compilable to a native executable via gcc (GNU Compiler Collection) on Linux or Windows (with MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows), or via LLVM's Clang on Linux or macOS. BSD will "probably work", according to the readme, but is not tested. Ruby is an interpreted language, meaning it depends on a runtime engine to parse and run the code.…