The Future of Ruby
summary
Ruby faces concrete problems and concrete fixes: dozens of implementations (JRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby/RubyMotion, IronRuby, Opal, Topaz, Maglev) expose different markets but fragmentation hurts portability; Ruby lacks a single authoritative spec so RubySpec as reference becomes the proposed solution; concurrency needs practical models such as actors for concurrency rather than rhetoric; performance gains come from real tools like JITs and GC improvements and from eliminating no global interpreter lock barriers; the priorities are specification, tooling, and growing the user base.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:56Does Ruby have a future
- 2:12Dynamically typed languages
- 3:55I am not an academic
- 5:24Confirmation Bias
- 6:03Peanut Butter and Jelly
- 8:48Quantity Matters
- 12:23Dynamic typing
- 12:59Ruby has a problem
- 13:32Ruby doesnt have a specification
- 14:15Opensource perspective
- 14:57Ruby
- 17:23Market segments
- 20:32MacRuby
- 25:00Rubinius
- 27:16Standardization
- 29:52Avoid wasting time
- 31:29What Ruby needs
- 33:35People
- 36:26Ruby Spec
