That’s what. Not why.

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.

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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.

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nine_k 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Is Ruby easy to embed in a C program?

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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).

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bandrami 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That was originally the point of Ruby

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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.