Goodbye fat gem 2025
Sutou Kouhei • Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan • Japanese • Talk

Date: April 16, 2025
Published: May 27, 2025
Announced: unknown

This talk proposes that moving away from fat gems—gems that include pre-built binaries—would benefit the Ruby ecosystem. While fat gems offer fast installation, they also bring high maintenance costs, slow updates for new Ruby versions, and delayed vulnerability fixes. The session discusses whether the Python wheel approach is suitable for Ruby, considering both user and developer perspectives.

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