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And Ruby code deployment story got another nightmare to tell! Not only now you require GCC and a bunch of -dev pages just to install the gems, now entirely different language toolset

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Rubygems supports precompiled binaries, so as long as those exists, it's unnecessary.

Actually with zig you dont need gcc anymore. Everything in a 60mb zip.

Except when targeting chipsets not supported by Zig.

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