Writing Ruby Like it's 2018

on YouTube ↗12m

" summary

Timeline of concrete changes and tools: Ruby 2.5 adds currying, yield_self/then, improved threading; frozen string literals risk breaking many gems if made default; projects like Sorbet beta by Stripe (released June 1) and dry-types (dry-rb) give gradual/static typing today; libraries such as rom and Hanami isolate logic for easier testing; Celluloid and similar work on fault-tolerant concurrency; Ruby 3 promises Ruby 3 promises 3x speed and guilds to conquer the GIL and true parallelism.

AI-written summary · about

" chapters (10)

1. 0:00Start
2. 0:55Programming in 2007
3. 2:17Ruby's Future Was Uncertain
4. 4:17Speed! Features! Community!
5. 4:52Boredom?
6. 5:35RUBY IS NOT RAILS!
7. 6:25Go Learn Some Functional Languages!
8. 6:41Write Ruby Like It's 2018
9. 7:46Better Practices
10. 8:33Ruby 3.0: Coming soon??

" related talks

• 01h 06mRuby3 challengesyukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · RubyKaigi 2015
• 43mRuby3 and beyondyukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · NoRuKo 2020
• 33mFunctional Future Rubyyukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · EuRuKo 2019
• 39mState of the RubyBen Hoskings · RubyConf AU 2013
• 55mRuby After 25 Yearsyukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · Bath Ruby 2018
• 49mThe state of the RubyverseLucian Ghinda · Friendly.rb 2023
• 39mOpening Keynoteyukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · RubyConf 2014
• 46mRuby3: What's Missing?yukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' · Ruby Hack 2019