From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T09:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: enterprise ruby

On Nov 11, 2007 6:39 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > All of which misses my point.
> >
> > Unless and until extensions can be written which are portable against
> > Ruby, JRuby, IronRuby, Rubinius ... the Ruby 'market' will be
> > fragmented.

> It's the very fact that Ruby extensions are written in C and compiled
> with C compilers to shared libraries with very specific constraints that
> limits their general applicability to other implementations (and limits
> evolution of core Ruby development as well).
>
> So I would propose that what you're saying is right...and that writing
> C-based extensions by hand just aggravates the problem, since C-based
> extensions are never going to be generally applicable to all
> implementations.

Well I never said that portable extensions needed to be written in C.

So maybe we should be rooting for Evan, and hope that we can soon be
writing extensions in a ruby-like version of Squeak's Slang.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/