🏂 Ruby Bindings and Extensions

Ruby is a wonderful language for so many reasons. It’s expressive, easy to read, ideal for modelling complex domains and there’s a broad and active community maintaining the language and libraries.However, it can occasionally be preferable to reach down to a lower level language (like C) since Ruby’s expressivity comes at the cost of some overheads. You may have a particular method that gets called very frequently and does not benefit from any high-level constructs (raw mathematics calculations, for instance).