Well... you can use Python & Ruby in the browser if you're not opposed to ha...

city41 · on Dec 2, 2010

That's not really Python or Ruby in the browser, that's IronPython or IronRuby running in the Silverlight's CLR via the plugin. Yes your Silverlight app can get out to the DOM and vice versa, but it's not really what Silverlight was meant for.

_3u10 · on Dec 3, 2010

If you want to be pedantic and get into a debate nothing is really ruby as the language lacks a spec the best definition of Ruby we have is acts kinda like MRI 1.8.

Also, most browsers don't run really run Javascript, they run ECMAscript or JScript. It's really jQuery converted to bytecode/assembly/C on SpiderMonkey/JagerMonkey/V8/Nitro. Sure you can create a high performance web server, but that's not really what V8 was meant for.

/pedantry

steveklabnik · on Dec 3, 2010

Just so you know, you can only be a pedant for a little while longer; Ruby is currently being made into an ISO standard.

Not to mention RubySpec, which all major implementations are working to conform to. Even though that's built off of "What MRI/YARV do"...