can you elaborate on ruby? i'm curious to understand your experience with it and what brought you to the conclusion that you "hate programming".
I don't like programming. I like it when the computer does what I tell it to do. I find that drastically easier to accomplish in Ruby (especially Rails).
We have ways of dealing with scaling of runtime in production (develop infrastructure environment).
There's no way I know to speed up the edit/compile/run loop during development.