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3 points by Darmani 5799 days ago | link | parent

Only problem is if your library is more than just a few files (e.g.: Ruby's RMagick requires you separately install ImageMagick; any Arc bindings to ImageMagick would require similar). Still, this is absolutely great! It seems so obvious and easy I'm surprised no other languages (that I know of) have it.


3 points by CatDancer 5799 days ago | link

Browser-side Javascript is like this in a way, for example to include the JQuery library all you need to say is

  <script
    type="text/javascript"
    src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.1/jquery.min.js"
    />
and the browser doesn't need to download it again if it is already in the browser's cache. This was one of my inspirations as I've been doing a lot of browser Javascript lately. The addition I made was to avoid getting the latest version automatically, as I imagined people might be nervous about that. (I know I would be. After all, Javascript in the browser runs in a sandbox, but Arc on your server can call (system "rm -rf /") etc...)

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