Why Ruby?

[David Nadlinger]

On 12/11/10 8:06 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Maybe if we have any luck with SWIG we'll be able to make some
> primitive wrappers for common C++ libraries. I'm just trying SWIG out
> these days, but some people have reported success in wrapping some
> libraries.

While I certainly appreciate the advertisement, the OMF/COFF issue 
described in this thread is not fundamentally solved by SWIG. In fact, 
this is precisely the reason why SWIG by default generates code to 
dynamically bind the symbols from the wrapper DLL at run-time – contrary 
to static linking, you don't need object file compatibility then (the 
same approach is also used by other projects like Derelict and QtD).

David