[RaiseProfits]

Languages are only good or bad in the context of performing a task. Ranking them in abstract is a silly waste of time that engineers love to emotionally engage in.

The ABI is also important for performance! You aren’t making this comparison in good faith. You can easily acknowledge the entire trade off rather than just calling one better.

[matheusmoreira]

You're right. I acknowledge that languages do pay a price for their flexibility and dynamism: efficient implementation becomes much harder.

[RaiseProfits]

I also acknowledge that smalltalk has literally the dream ide and tooling. Ruby will take decades to catch up.