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by nine_k 133 days ago
Is Ruby easy to embed in a C program?
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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.

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