FWIW, Duby is not "done" or "ready" yet, but it's moving along. The promise of a static-typed language with all the expressive power of Ruby (or at least, Ruby'

FWIW, Duby is not "done" or "ready" yet, but it's moving along. The promise of a static-typed language with all the expressive power of Ruby (or at least, Ruby's syntax), but the performance of Java and no runtime library is very compelling to me.