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Jan Schaumann

What's Ruby?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Rust to build it.

What's Rust?

A compiled, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Python to build it.

What's Python?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

Do I need, uhm, Perl to build it?

No, but you need Perl to build Rust.

I knew it. What's Perl?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-

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Cassandrich

@jschauma FFS when can folks stop making these gratuitous compounding build/bootstrapping dependencies? Ruby needing Rust is probably reasonable. Rust needing Python and Perl is nothing but laziness and cost externalization.

Paweł Świątkowski

@dalias Ruby needing Rust might be reasonable, but it's not even true 😉 Rust is IIRC only needed to compile with YJIT, which is optional (and I believe still considered experimental)
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