PyPy is getting there. ...on some be benchmarks. It's not near the stage when it beats C or C++ in general. And it's much easier to write correct Ruby than co

PyPy is getting there. ...on some be benchmarks. It's not near the stage when it beats C or C++ in general. And it's much easier to write correct Ruby than correct C. C is not very type safe, but there are languages that are and have comparable performance to C (Ada, C++, etc.).