From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2010-01-26T17:17:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby bounties--list of bounties

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Eleanor McHugh <
eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:

> I implore Ruby developers to write in Pure Ruby and demand all these Ruby
> Implementors solve their "performance" problems ;p
>

The problem with this attitude is that you eschew some great, robust
libraries that are already out there that solve complex problems.  Parsing
XML is a bitch.  Fortunately, there are already some great libraries to do
this.  There's the libxml2 library, which Nokogiri uses, and Java ships with
some great XML libraries to.

Will we ever see a pure Ruby library as robust and powerful as these (all
performance considerations aside)?  REXML certainly isn't there yet.  Is it
really worth writing a library in pure Ruby when robust libraries already
exist that Ruby can tap into?

-- 
Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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