I'm assuming he's doing it primarily for educational purposes. Even if he weren't, there's nothing wrong with porting libraries to Ruby. There's always an imp

I'm assuming he's doing it primarily for educational purposes. Even if he weren't, there's nothing wrong with porting libraries to Ruby. There's always an impedance mismatch when you SWIG or otherwise FFI a library into a native application. Besides, let's be honest -- Python ain't that much faster than Ruby, especially with Rubinius et al on the horizon.