> Ruby has had Fiddle[1] (a libffi binding) in stdlib for a while now. I don’t know when exactly they added it
In ruby 1.9.2 [0], released in 2010.
> But I also don’t think that’s what the speaker meant. “Binary extensions” are a semi-standard concept in Python, and generally refer to code (modules or packages) that gets compiled against the Python C APIs.
Ruby has the same thing.
[0] Based on when it first appears in the standard library documentation on the web; 1.9.1 doesn’t have it, 1.9.2 does.
In ruby 1.9.2 [0], released in 2010.
> But I also don’t think that’s what the speaker meant. “Binary extensions” are a semi-standard concept in Python, and generally refer to code (modules or packages) that gets compiled against the Python C APIs.
Ruby has the same thing.
[0] Based on when it first appears in the standard library documentation on the web; 1.9.1 doesn’t have it, 1.9.2 does.