From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T02:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem wrapping the C++ STL

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:37:39 +0900, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we should just rewrite the interpreter in C++ then. Think of all
> the STL and Boost stuff we could then integrate "for free". I can only
> guess what other advantages this might bring in the long run.

It should be nearly sufficient to replace the setjmp/longjump bits
with C++ exceptions and build the interpreter with a C++ compiler.

However, that just exchanges one problem for another since the bulk of Ruby
extensions are written in C, and embedding Ruby becomes even more
difficult.

I think we'd all be much better off if someone wrote a Ruby equivalent to
boost.python.  There is a partially-completed one out there, but it's
unmaintained I'm not able to find it again at the moment.

-mental