Ruby After 25 Years
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Ruby marks its 25th birthday (named Feb 24, 1993) and aims for a performance leap called Ruby 3x3 to be three times faster by 3.0. A JIT prototype ships in 2.6 (released around Christmas) and shows JIT prototype >2x on CPU-bound workloads; further optimizations remain. Planned language additions are a new concurrency model called guild concurrency (no shared state, actor-like channels) and gradual static analysis (Steep-style inference to catch ~20–40% of type errors). Community events drew ~500 attendees in Tokyo and ~3,000 online messages.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:5325th Anniversary of Ruby
- 7:051993-02-24
- 14:08Font sizes
- 15:37Predicting the future is always hard
- 30:13Thermal problem
- 31:35Multi-core
- 32:12Concurrency
- 32:48Heterogeneous computing
- 39:22Type Inference
- 40:13Interactive Programming
- 42:08Concurrent Abstraction
- 46:29Avoiding a BIG GAP
- 53:06To make programming "fun" again








