Agreed. There's enough people familiar with Ruby out there now to give a language like Mirah, the early adopter userbase it needs to grow and get traction. Al

Agreed. There's enough people familiar with Ruby out there now to give a language like Mirah, the early adopter userbase it needs to grow and get traction. Also I think Mirah has targeted a real niche, a true alternative JVM language to Java that doesn't have the baggage of its own standard library.