[ruby-talk:444113] Re: Ractor status: are they used?

Hi, I just evaluated the possibility of using Ractors to distribute processing using various gems with native extensions (some matrix/vector computations with Numo::Linalg and approximate vector searches) and I've mixed feelings. The Ractor design seems very sound to me and I would prefer to use them to distribute the load on multiple CPUs but in practice I see 2 major obstacles : - the first use of Ractor code isn't encouraging, even with Ruby 3.2.0, as it outputs : "warning: Ractor is experimental, and the behavior may change in future versions of Ruby! Also there are many implementation issues." - when heavy computations are involved you are probably already using gems with native extensions and when trying to use them in a non-main Ractor you will almost always get an exception : "ractor unsafe method called from not main ractor (Ractor::UnsafeError)"