[ricardobeat]

I don't use Ruby day-to-day other than a few small tools, but why not focus efforts on evolving Crystal [1] to make it more suited for rapid web development? It already has a powerful type system and incredible performance, and should be an easy transition for rubyists.

[1] https://crystal-lang.org/

[imhoguy]

Because it is about Rails and tons of useful gems which would need to be ported 1:1 to Crystal, plus keep compatibility with CRuby for some time. Too much effort which nobody would pay for.

[cyberferret]

I agree with this sentiment. I like the type checking in Crystal, and it is pretty much the newer, younger brother to Ruby. I don't see the issue of leaving Ruby pretty much 'as is' so that legacy code does not break, and focus on making Crystal a much better evolution of Ruby.

[technion]

Why should the people who built and maintain Ruby focus their efforts on a different language?

[ricardobeat]

You can ask the creator himself: https://github.com/mruby/mruby