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It's summer! People are doing things with their lives.

Wait, people have social lives outside of reading HN? I find this information disturbing.

I think ruby-sys was originally built into ruru, then separated out. Based on comments in PRs, I think the -sys convention is for Rust crates that map 1-to-1 to other languages C apis. Then, packages such as ruru create something more easy to consume and program against.

Yes, this is correct. I haven't had more time to build up ruby-sys; and also, wanted to try to integrate it into helix rather than their libcruby-sys.

Helix was just announced at Rails Conf 2016, so it's definitely not abandoned.