Keynote: '...then what?'
summary
Claim: Ruby wins mainstream adoption — evidence: first International RubyConf had 39–40 people, by 2005 rooms of ~200 with ~50 doing Ruby professionally, regionals now ~3× bigger. Tools and outcomes: Rails drives web success (it works), RubyGems spreads libraries (it works), VM work like YARV improves performance (helpful), while Ruby 2 vaporware and poor i18n remain real failures. Recommended fixes: hollow out core for gems, encourage rapid heresy testing and diversify into Erlang/Haskell/Smalltalk.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:45Rudy
- 12:48The Community
- 15:21What that means
- 17:42Less development time
- 20:18Internationalisation
- 23:52Offshoring
- 24:52Community
- 26:58Ruby Conference
- 29:10Community Immunity
- 33:39Optional Static Typing
- 34:12heresy
- 35:54Microsoft
- 38:49Language
- 41:24Writing system
- 42:26Forced evolution
- 45:05Immunity
- 45:58Let it be
- 46:41The real killer
- 48:29What we have won
- 48:56Take back 3 years
- 49:41Can I RC
- 50:05Communities
- 52:04Metaphors
- 53:01Culture
- 54:49Geek Culture
- 56:55Everyone has an automatic right
- 57:48Value rigidity
- 58:47Monkeys
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