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Avi Bryant on implementing all of Ruby in Ruby:

To me, one thing that’s wonderful about both Smalltalk and Java is that all of their libraries, including basic data structures like lists and hashtables, are implemented in, respectively, Smalltalk and Java.

When Ruby is fast enough to implement most of it’s standard library in Ruby then it might lose the scripting label which seems to be hanging around it’s neck. There seem to be a few other efforts going on to implement the language, incluing JRuby, and they can only contribute to making Ruby better.

Also efforts like this wiki are a good idea as well.