Ruby <> slow

To all the shitheads saying "Ruby is slow" as fuck:
"Ruby is slow" is a myth. Ruby is slow for certain types of problems, but there are ways to fix this by being a competent programmer and also by using wrapper classes of fast C/C++ or Java libraries and also by not using Ruby for problems it is ill-suited to.

The problem with Ruby is that it doesn't excel at anything. It may do its job, but it won't do it any better than a language tailored for that purpose.

The other problem is that it uses an interpreter, which reduces code execution speed by a factor of 2-3x.

I'm sure there are more problems, however, in the name of brevity...

Why use a language that produces poorly executed code when you can use something like C?

ffs, even Lisp is better than Ruby.