Ruby a combination of system and scripting programming language

Many people believe that “rubinius matters to Ruby’s future“. Ruby is still widely used as a scripting language that usually are interpreted, but projects like Rubinus a virtual machine and compiler for Ruby and YARV a new bytecode interpreter are transforming Ruby into a system programming language.

If you are interested in a detailed analyze of system and scripting programming languages, check out this “scripting: higher level programming for the 21st century“. It has some detailed explanations and comparisons, more importantly it predicted the rising of scripting language.

A language like Ruby empowers both of system and scripting programming languages will definitely have a promising future.