"A year and a half from now, everybody will have compiled code," he said.
So some features of the malware: It can be distributed - and I should comment that, understand, this is compiled code.
The libffi library is useful in building a bridge between interpreted and natively compiled code.
Sure, it's an easy language to learn and use, since everything is dynamically typed and you don't need to compile code to make it execute.
Some systems (such as some Lisps) allow interpreted and compiled code to call each other and to share variables.
However, small amounts of code and algorithms can be constructed to run faster than compiled native code.
Doing this a third of the performance for compiled native code is insanely impressive in my book.
Compiled code is stored in a single file called an image file.
The result is a reduced time to compile code and allows game creators to tweak settings in real time.
It is freely accessible from the project's page both as source and compiled code.