[ruby-core:59979] [ruby-trunk - misc #9438] Implementation naming

Issue #9438 has been updated by Yorick Peterse.


 > Issue #9438 has been updated by Hiroshi SHIBATA.
 > We should use "Ruby".
 
 This would imply that MRI is the only Ruby implementation, or at least
 the only one that matters. I'd say this is very far from the truth as
 there are quite a few different implementations out there. Rubinius and
 JRuby are just two but there's also Maglev, Topaz and a few others.
 
 Stating that Ruby and MRI are the same would lead to confusion. Because
 of this one might think that JRuby and MRI are the same things when in
 reality they're not.
 
 In short, Ruby is the language and not the implementation. I could
 create an implementation called CatRuby that's powered by cats, but that
 wouldn't make Ruby and CatRuby identical to each other.
 
 Personally I'd stick with MRI/CRuby as those are already the two
 commonly used terms. CRuby is a bit more explicit about the underlying
 technology whereas MRI is a bit more explicit about the people behind
 it.

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misc #9438: Implementation naming
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9438#change-44507

* Author: Zachary Scott
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Zachary Scott
* Category: doc
* Target version: current: 2.2.0
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There seems to be an unclear decision on what to call this implementation.

We should make a decision between CRuby and MRI and update relating documentation to use one of them.

This discussion is based off a [ticket on ruby-lang.org](https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/commit/9c315c3#commitcomment-5120340), but also affects ruby-trunk source code as MRI is mentioned periodically.



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