---
title: "Progress on Ruby's newest parser"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 647
published_at: "2023-03-30"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/647"
---

Plus a new RubyMine, git fame, and pairing on Ruby code with ChatGPT. |        

#​647 — March 30, 2023 

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- Shopify's Kevin Newton has been hard at work on [YARP](https://github.com/Shopify/yarp) (Yet Another Ruby Parser), an attempt to replace Ruby's C-based parser with a more extensible one ([design docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x74L_paTxS_h8_OtQjDoLVgxZP6Y96WOJ1LdLNb4BKM/edit#)). Progress is good with Kevin [saying](https://twitter.com/kddnewton/status/1639687636372561922): _"100% on all test targets, and all of the codebases I can get my hands on. I am so happy and relieved it's ridiculous."_
- _Ruby Central_, the non-profit Ruby advocacy group, has a post about [where they've been and where they're headed](https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-board/) that will help you understand their role in the Ruby ecosystem.
- There's a new release of the `uri` gem that [fixes a ReDOS security vulnerability](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/03/28/redos-in-uri-cve-2023-28755/) where a specially crafted invalid URL can cause `uri`'s execution time to increase.
- GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath has continued to tweet about GitHub's early days, this time writing [🐦 a thread on how GitHub started to charge money](https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1641138130807058432) and how PeepCode's Geoffrey Grosenbach was involved.
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