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| ▲ | nine_k 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The why: because Lua, Python, JavaScript, Janet, etc lack many or all these features. And each of these features is known to make life easier for a human programmer. | | |
| ▲ | dismalaf 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Looking through that list of features, Ruby (the dynamic language I know best) has all but 1 built-in (and the other can be added with Gems). I'm guessing Python probably has them all too (but I don't know Python that well). They're pretty common. So the why still isn't clear. | | |
| ▲ | nine_k 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is Ruby easy to embed in a C program? | | |
| ▲ | debugnik 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | RPG Maker used to embed Ruby before it was cool (and before they switched to JS for web support). | |
| ▲ | bandrami 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That was originally the point of Ruby | |
| ▲ | dismalaf 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes -> https://mruby.org It's also incredibly easy to extend the main Ruby implementation with C, C++, Odin, Zig, Rust, Fortran, etc... Literally a few lines. | | |
| ▲ | vidarh 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | The main Ruby implementation is also fairly easy to embed. It's just not easy to embed multiple MRI ruby instances in a single application, and it's also a lot bigger than mruby. |
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| ▲ | paulddraper 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The reason it exists is to provide those features when programming computers. |
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