> _why's unholy showed it's trivial to compile Ruby into Python (in many cases). It shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) to make a Ruby VM with PyPy. Basi

> _why's unholy showed it's trivial to compile Ruby into Python (in many cases). It shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) to make a Ruby VM with PyPy. Basic structures like if, else, while etc. is easy. The hard part is the object model (including constant lookup) and long jumps (exceptions, next/break). Let's not forget the big core library which you need to implement if you want it to be usable at all… (Related: I started working on a Ruby version in JavaScript: https://github.com/judofyr/rubyscript https://github.com/judofyr/rubyscript)