Winding Down Artichoke Ruby: A Journey from Toy to Rust Implementation

I am archiving Artichoke Ruby, a project that began as a toy to explore Rust and mruby but grew into a serious experiment. Over six years, I built a spec-compliant String in pure Rust and learned why the GIL exists. While the project achieved its educational goals, I lack the time to maintain compatibility with upstream Ruby. The code remains public for study, but active development has ended.