From: Sam Smoot <ssmoot@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T00:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Ruby (was Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet)

> Some things are (a) still hard in pure Ruby and (b) much more useful
> without depending on a C extension.
>
> -austin

Absolutely. Projects like FasterCSV, REXML, Merb, etc are invaluable
to my daily work.

Pure-ruby projects I don't personally use like Sequel, or Nitro are
obviously great achievements with very high standards.

I just meant to highlight that the ability to build bridges for Ruby
to "the outside world" is often a task that might be best done as a C-
extension, and generally speaking, it seems to be a fairly small pool
of people capable or willing to build those bridges for us.