If we could just have shared libraries in the browser, it would solve the problem of having to serve the entire ruby runtime with each webpage. You'd just put a

If we could just have shared libraries in the browser, it would solve the problem of having to serve the entire ruby runtime with each webpage. You'd just put a tag in the header indicating you're using ruby runtime version X and the browser would download it and put it in some permanent cache for javascript code. Really, it's high time we got some sort of package management for browsers. P.S. I mean shared libraries in the abstract sense, not .so or .dll files specifically.