I came to FS in 2015 looking for a more affordable Lab View. It can be, but I lost my interest when I needed to move to a more stable computing environment aka Linux. I have worked programming custom automation in modern industry for well over 20 years. Windows is an unreliable toy system barely ...

Speaking strictly about FS 3.0.8 and it's ruby engine being 1.9.3 (labeled 1.9.1 for ruby internal compatibility):

FS ruby is the full version of ruby per FS user guide page 233 with a minor addition to integrate ruby and the FS framework. That said ruby 1.9.3, as a language can handle unicode with ...

Yes.

This is a simple argument. It is close to the argument of why we have terrabyte drives instead of 15MB... oh you will never need more than 15MB - pfft. Need that 64 bit address space. ruby can do big boy stuff so lets get going on this

Also a pulling for a Linux port. In all seriousness ...