[dismalaf]

Looking through that list of features, Ruby (the dynamic language I know best) has all but 1 built-in (and the other can be added with Gems). I'm guessing Python probably has them all too (but I don't know Python that well). They're pretty common. So the why still isn't clear.

[paulddraper]

Tell me more about Ruby generics….

[dismalaf]

Want to split hairs eh?

Duck typing achieves the same thing as "generics", just at runtime vs. compile time.

[paulddraper]

Generics are implicitly compile time checks.

It’s a willful misinterpretation to read otherwise.

[nine_k]

Is Ruby easy to embed in a C program?

[dismalaf]

Yes -> https://mruby.org

It's also incredibly easy to extend the main Ruby implementation with C, C++, Odin, Zig, Rust, Fortran, etc... Literally a few lines.

[vidarh]

The main Ruby implementation is also fairly easy to embed. It's just not easy to embed multiple MRI ruby instances in a single application, and it's also a lot bigger than mruby.

[bandrami]

That was originally the point of Ruby

[debugnik]

RPG Maker used to embed Ruby before it was cool (and before they switched to JS for web support).