Keynote: Ruby Everywhere
summary
Announcement of a new role at Heroku as Chief Architect Ruby and hiring of full‑time committers (Nobuyoshi Nakada already on payroll) to accelerate core development; submission of the language spec as JIS X 3017 with an ISO vote of 20–0 pending minor edits; release candidate for Ruby 1.9.3 is available; presentation and working demo of mruby/RiteVM (Mandelbrot demo runs, mruby is tiny and still buggy but executable), targeting cloud, mobile, embedded devices and robots.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Keynote introduction
- 0:17Location and history
- 2:36New role at Salesforce
- 3:42Community impact
- 9:14Full-time support
- 12:23Language standards
- 13:29Computers and software
- 20:15Ruby philosophy
- 24:08Cloud and mobile future
- 25:33mruby implementation
- 29:30Expanding Ruby's reach
