The Erlang runtime imposes a different set of constraints than Python that would impact the design of the language being built on top of it. Given that, someone

The Erlang runtime imposes a different set of constraints than Python that would impact the design of the language being built on top of it. Given that, someone already has come as close as you can to porting Ruby to the Erlang VM, it is called Elixir. http://elixir-lang.org/ http://elixir-lang.org/