@headius I (and I would hope most people who love Ruby) want Ruby being fast enough to do all of the things we need to do without C etc.

@headius That's what I was getting at (maybe poorly) too.

@headius In the case of some C Extension in Ruby/Rubinius/JRuby, we are definitely leaning on C to make Ruby fast.

@merbist My point was that this "Learn C" mantra is a straw man.

@mitchellh I meant that we should get Ruby to where we don't have to lean on C or Java to make go fast.