[Ruby is] immensely useful for building all sorts of things, but it’s not fast enough... give me a Ruby with performance as good as a really good Smalltalk VM, and the space of things for which you need statically-typed languages shrinks to a really uninteresting size
Java who?
Posted by crayz
Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems, discussing why Sun is sponsoring all three next-gen Ruby VMs:
