Ruby really needs to put performance on the roadmap as a serious project. The work done on Python, on Perl, on JavaScript especially shows that there's huge gains that can be made if you prioritize it.

Sadly the core Ruby team has been incredibly indifferent and at times outright hostile to projects like JRuby and Rubinius that have tried valiantly to push Ruby forward.

I'd rather not see people use JavaScript, Swift, or C# because Ruby wasn't fast enough for their particular problem.

Yes. Rubinius, in particular, should be given more love. I mean, it is one thing to say that Ruby is fast enough for your startup's application supported by lots of memcached instances with a CloudFlare front. It's another thing entirely to have a compiler written in your language, and claiming that that it is fast enough.

I had a lot of hope for Rubinius and that team is all heroes in my book. What a shame that the whole project ran into serious friction due to politics and culture.

Their greatest legacy, the incredibly comprehensive Ruby Test suite, seems to be largely ignored by the core team which is a true shame. http://rubinius.com/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-...