Misc #22088: DevMeeting-2026-06-11

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

The next dev meeting

Date: 2026/06/11 13:00-17:00 (JST)
Log: TBD

• Dev meeting IS NOT a decision-making place. All decisions should be done at the bug tracker.
• Dev meeting is a place we can ask Matz, nobu, nurse and other developers directly.
• Matz is a very busy person. Take this opportunity to ask him. If you can not attend, other attendees can ask instead of you (if attendees can understand your issue).
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[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Related to Misc #14770: [META] DevelopersMeeting added

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

• [Feature #22085] String#to_f and Kernel#Float shouldn't issue Float out of range warnings (byroot)
  • This is a good warning when Ruby is parsing source code.
  • But it's not really actionable when parsing user input.

[hasumikin (hitoshi hasumi)]

• [Feature #22082] Introduce Bit Operations into String (hasumikin)
  • I'd like you to discuss whether it's appropriate to add such functionality to the String class
  • And if so, which methods should be added first

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

• [Bug #22058] {Method,InstanceMethod}#super_method doesn't work correctly for refined method with refinements for method active in the caller's scope
  • Is it ok to keep the 2.7+ behavior of super? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22058#note-13

[Eregon (Benoit Daloze)]

• [Feature #21998] Add {Method,UnboundMethod,Proc}#source_range (eregon)
  • Are these tweaks OK? See https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21998#note-25
  • PR is ready: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/16835

[himura467 (Akito Shitara)]

• [Feature #19315] Lazy substrings in CRuby
  • I created a prototype implementation: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/17045
  • This is also a prerequisite for [Feature #22056].
  • Proposed approach:
    • Keep RSTRING_PTR() behavior unchanged. This is essential for preserving compatibility with existing C extensions.
    • Introduce a new API (tentatively named RSTRING_RAW_PTR()) that returns a raw pointer without guaranteeing null termination and without triggering unsharing.
      • Zero-copy requires caller migration, but I consider compatibility the higher priority.
  • Would like you to discuss:
    • Whether the no-GVL handling in RSTRING_PTR() is warranted (see https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19315#note-18)
    • How RSTRING_PTR() should handle null termination: permanently unshare, or allocate a read-only copy instead (see https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19315#note-23), with a possible restriction to frozen/STR_TMPLOCK strings only (see https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19315#note-27)
    • Whether RSTRING_RAW_PTR() is an appropriate name for the new API

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• [Feature #22093] Introduce Process::ID for process IDs returned by Process.spawn and fork

  • Add integer-like class Process::ID which wraps a process ID.

  • Open questions

    • Should Process::ID include Comparable, or only define <=>?
    • Should Process::ID#wait accept the same integer flags as existing wait APIs, provide keyword arguments, or support both?
    • Should Process::ID#detach simply be equivalent to Process.detach(self)?
    • Are there other process-related APIs that should return or preserve Process::ID?

  • https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/17213

[jhawthorn (John Hawthorn)]

• [Feature #22067] New RUBY_TYPED_THREAD_SAFE_FREE bit to declare thread safe dfree functions (jhawthorn, luke-gru)
  • Proposes an opt-in TypedData flag declaring a dfree() function thread-safe
  • Allows GC implementations to free TypedData in parallel / concurrently with Ruby code or with Ractor-local GC
  • Implies RUBY_TYPED_FREE_IMMEDIATELY (more strict for extension authors, more flexible for GC)
  • Alternate name: RUBY_TYPED_FREE_THREAD_SAFE. Shares prefix with RUBY_TYPED_FREE_IMMEDIATELY, but reads more awkwardly.
  • OK to add flag?