[MatthewPhillips]

? Doesn't this show that we aren't stuck with the same hammer? Opal is a different hammer.

[rrouse]

Not really. You're still using Javascript in the end.

[ville]

How is that a bad thing? Source code VMs are easier to secure and as the tooling improves, you don't need to look a the generated JS anymore to debug, it becomes "byte code".