From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-09-26T10:57:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25783] Re: syck maintenance?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> There are pure ruby variants (rubinius has/had one, I think jruby did too).
> FFI has probably supplanted the pure ruby versions by now. zaml was just for
> one direction and was much faster (and quite possibly the ugliest ruby I've
> ever read. Obvious pythoners).

I don't think anyone's using a YAML library through FFI right now.
Rubinius uses syck loaded as a normal C extension, and JRuby's Yecht
is a port of the Syck C code to Java. We had a version that was unlike
Syck, but it was hard to make it feature-compatible so Ola did a full
port.

- Charlie