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		pcwalton on June 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils > The best advantage of writing libraries in C is that it allows the library to be usable via FFIs in many other languages. Rust has allowed this for over a year at this point. For example, see the (old) blog post "Embedding Rust in Ruby": http://brson.github.io/2013/03/10/embedding-rust-in-ruby/

steveklabnik on June 12, 2014 [–]

And the third production deployment of Rust is at Tilde for skylight, which uses a Ruby extension written as a Rust library with a thin C wrapper, due to Ruby's extensive C macros which would be annoying and bug-prone to port.

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