Ruby Past Present and Future
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Language history: Ruby starts 1993, public 1995, gains huge momentum from Rails. Implementations include MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and YARV; YARV runs up to 50x faster on some benchmarks. One branch focuses on Ruby 1.9 stable by Christmas with fibers and dynamic multi-encoding regex; Unicode becomes pluggable to avoid data loss. Projection estimates 4 million developers by 2013. Roadmap targets scalability: multiple-VM (MVM), keyword arguments, safer method composition, namespaces and lazy/functional primitives for larger teams and multicore.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:14Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008
- 1:15Seek for True Lan
- 4:09Goals
- 4:20Real Goal
- 4:35Design Proces
- 10:00The oldest Meta
- 10:42Too Simple
- 12:44The Balance
- 18:10JRuby
- 20:29Fiber
- 21:25How to Handle Chara
- 26:07Issues
- 26:45Performance
- 30:06Scalability
- 32:12Selector Names
- 34:53Summary
