Why can't ruby just compile to erlang's VM?

Because they are very different. Ruby is an OOP language, isn’t concurrent, isn’t immutable etc

The closest thing to getting anything like Ruby on the Erlang VM …is Elixir :icon_wink: :003:


If you are a newbie I highly recommended any one of the brilliant Elixir books out there - they will help you understand a lot about Elixir and even the other technologies that are connected in some way or another :023:

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