Opening Keynote
summary
A personal account of Ruby’s history names concrete milestones: development begins in 1993, a mailing list reaches 200 members, the Pickaxe book sells 20,000 copies, and the first RubyConf draws 34 attendees before growth to ~800 and adoption at companies like Twitter Netflix and AirBnB. The language roadmap lists Ruby 2.6 additions (endless ranges Kernel#then Enumerable#to_h and an experimental JIT), Ruby 3 performance and concurrency goals, and a sketch of a Ruby4 effort around 2025.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 11:22Peacocks Black
- 12:14First RubyConf
- 12:54Current Ruby Users
- 13:44Alternative Implementation
- 14:16Uses of Ruby
- 14:52Community
- 16:01JavaScript Community
- 16:54Typhoon
- 17:45Rubik Committee
- 18:35Bug Reports
- 19:54Feature Requests
- 20:53Document Writer
- 21:24Internal Curiosity
- 22:32Work for money
- 23:00The Ruby community
- 23:51Feed the community
- 24:56Is Ruby dead
- 25:27Hype cycle
- 26:37Rails best age
- 27:40We are in a golden age
- 28:53Ruby helped Twitter
- 31:13Never give up
- 34:09Be nice and be happy
- 36:20You do your part
- 36:44We are working on
- 37:12Ruby 2 Point 6
