Intimate Chat with Matz
summary
Casual Q&A covers concrete decisions and requests: immutable collections are left to gems for now, embedded MRuby <500KB runs many tiny VMs, early adoption was only a few hundred users, and 1.8 maintenance ends June next year. Concurrency history: green threads were fine then, but attempts to remove the GIL slowed Ruby significantly, so major thread changes wait for a clean C API and time. Actionable ask: try Ruby 2.0 preview and report compatibility bugs.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:59Is There a Feature of Ruby That You Wish You Done Differently
- 13:48The Standard Library
- 25:29What What Other Languages Have You Been Using Playing with Lately in Your in Your Spare Time
- 29:30Questions from the Audience
- 46:10Null Object Pattern
