Would it be possible to use something like RICE (https://github.com/jasonroelofs/rice,https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2014/6/12/calling-c-cpp-from-ruby/) to make a copy of TPT in Ruby for development? I'm not familar with C and I've been learning Ruby the last few months. To me it doesn't sound feasible, I'm sure there's a lot more that goes into what I'm imagining. I figured I'd ask though, it would be really cool if that's possible.

That would be a fantastic developement! Do you have any idea how you could go about doing something like that?

Also, why would it inhernetly be slow? Is it beacuase Ruby has to "translate" because of it's syntax? Would Ruby ever be practically useful for a game or visual simulation?