A project originally written in Rust, consisting of approximately 30,000 lines of code, is being revisited with an interest in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Ruby and Ruby on Rails continue to perform well in the current programming landscape.

Spinel compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables, utilizing whole-program type inference to generate optimized C code for improved performance over CRuby. The compiler backend is self-hosted, written in Ruby, and capable of compiling itself into a native binary.