Something Interesting
summary
Claims that Ruby is intentionally messy and multi‑paradigm, with concrete surprises: whitespace makes m/ n/o mean three different things (m/ n/o ambiguity), Ruby 1.9 adds fibers, enumerators and a new regex engine, and regexes support scoped captures and callable subpatterns so a recursive regex palindromes example actually matches. Language size grows from ~1.5MB to ~40MB and core methods rise from hundreds to thousands; communities explode with Rails’ gold rush and remain plural and messy.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:43Why Ruby remains my choice
- 7:19Ruby’s imperfections and quirks
- 14:48Ruby’s flexible keywords
- 18:00Multiple ways in Ruby
- 21:55Ruby’s messy progress
- 24:44Ruby 1.9 advancements
- 27:12Why messiness keeps Ruby interesting
- 30:23From small to Rails Gold Rush
- 33:37Ruby communities beyond one group
- 37:56Conclusion
