[_frog]

I've been working through this book over the past few days, and writing my own git implementation in Rust in parallel, and I've found Ruby to be much simpler from an implementation standpoint. Ruby's standard library provides a lot of useful functionality out of the box (SHA1 digests, the deflate algorithm) which I've had to pull in dependencies for in my Rust version.

Obviously the Rust version is significantly faster, but the Ruby version is higher level and better expresses the concepts the book is trying to demonstrate without getting too bogged down in syntax, types, etc.