Town Meeting with Ruby Creator
summary
Annual Q&A covers concrete decisions and failures: about 500 attendees compared with three originals, file.exists vs file.exist breaks on 1.9 and is an acknowledged mistake, 1.9 release Christmas 2007 will be feature-stable but not fully implementation-stable, continuations move to require library in 1.9, performance shows 5% slowdowns on real code with VM hotspots identified, work on JIT-ish optimizations and multicore/process models is ongoing, multiple implementations (JRuby, Rubinius) exist and specs for 1.8/1.9 and standard-library pruning are actively discussed.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 6:15When Will 1 9 Be Production Ready
- 14:45Jeff Parsons
- 16:12What Is the Ruby Community
- 36:32What Is Your Second Favorite Programming Language
- 38:09Toyota Production System
- 45:38Selector Namespaces
- 53:47Are You Involved in Getting Ruby Working or Added to any Distributions
- 1:01:46Role of Change in the Standard Library
- 1:02:30How Do You See the Standard Library Evolving over Time
- 1:04:17Who's Responsible for Ruby Standard Library
- 1:08:16Book Publishing in Japan
