# Real world viability of 1.9?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/real-world-viability-of-1-9/122439>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 7, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/real-world-viability-of-1-9/122439 "2007-12-07T16:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/real-world-viability-of-1-9/122439/1 "2007-12-07T16:42:42Z")

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Guys,

I realize that 1.9 will be a “dev” release, similar to the Linux  
kernel. I’m curious, though, given the speed improvements, do folks  
intend to use this for production use? Is it likely that many  
applications will be switched to run on 1.9, or is this completely  
unwise?

And, given that, is there any timeline for 2.0? A year? Two?

Thanks!  
John

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**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/real-world-viability-of-1-9/122439/2 "2007-12-08T02:30:33Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: Real world viability of 1.9?”  
on Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:41:33 +0900, “John W.”  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

|I realize that 1.9 will be a “dev” release, similar to the Linux  
|kernel. I’m curious, though, given the speed improvements, do folks  
|intend to use this for production use? Is it likely that many  
|applications will be switched to run on 1.9, or is this completely  
|unwise?

It’s pretty difficult to predict, since it’s not really a technical  
question. At lease, some of us already use 1.9 for their daily  
scripting.

|And, given that, is there any timeline for 2.0? A year? Two?

There’s no timeline for 2.0. We haven’t even started working on it.

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          matz.

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