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It's just common practice - in Ruby some popular gems that parse XML or JSON come with a C extension that does some performance heavy calculation. Most gems don
by joelbluminator 6y ago
It's just common practice - in Ruby some popular gems that parse XML or JSON come with a C extension that does some performance heavy calculation. Most gems don't do this, but when performance is very important some do.
Us Rubyists see no problem with that, and we don't take this as some kind of incentive to leave Ruby, maybe even the opposite; knowing that you can do 99% of your app in Ruby, and if ever needed, easily fill in the 1% with Rust/Go/C++ is very reassuring imo.