[ekidd]

> Ruby is easy to get working cross-platform?

Compared to a C++ project which relies on a half-dozen external libraries each with their own build system? Yes, in my experience. I've spent too much of my life converting autoconf scripts to Visual C++ project files.

But Rust is definitely quite reasonable to get working on Windows, especially pure Rust, but small C extensions are OK as long as OpenSSL isn't involved. Usually I can just cross-compile or build using Travis CI.