[carbotaniuman]

One way you can think of this is speeding up the "slowest programming language". And removing/reducing blocking calls has benefits for languages like Ruby too.

[faizshah]

I found the easiest way to explain it is Ruby/Python/Lua are scripting languages for optimized C code.

[slashdev]

A syscall is so fast compared to Ruby code. It really doesn’t make much sense to me.