ruby oldheads scoff at rv being in rust, but it's because it can enable a new era of rubyists to join us by vastly lowering the barrier to entry.
precompiled downloads with dependencies are table stakes in 2026
Kasper Timm Hansen
I wrote a history of rv until now, what we've released, and what our plans are andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-…
This post was originally given as a talk at Rubycon IT 2026. The slides are also available.
It’s been a while since I first talked about rv, a Ruby manager for the future. I’d like give an update on what we’ve done since then, but I’m going to recap some of that earlier post first to give context f…