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To be fair, there's nothing wrong with the language. The article points out problems in the VM and the compiler.

There's nothing stopping someone from writing, for example, an AS3 compiler for the JVM that interacts with Java libraries in the same way JRuby does.




Well, since he is talking about how bad the specs are (and not the VM) this seems only partly true ;)




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