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> As a Ruby developer, I'm hoping to see a new language created that is inspired by Ruby but is optimized for speed.

You don't need a new language - all you need is a better runtime. See what PyPy does for Python. A good JIT also goes a long way - people forget how terrible Java performance was in the late 90's.



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