Fifty Years of Ruby
summary
Claims that Ruby rediscovered Smalltalk and traces concrete artifacts from Xerox Alto and Smalltalk 72/76/80 to Ruby 0.95 and Rails 2004, showing what actually changed and what stuck. Shows tools and runtimes added over time — MJIT YJIT RBS Prism parser and multiple JITs — and notes a 3x3 performance goal and that there are over 30 implementations. Demonstrates Rails as the built killer app that drove adoption and which components succeeded.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Ruby’s fifty-year journey
- 2:27Mother of all demos innovations
- 6:22Xerox PARC Smalltalk birth
- 10:20Smalltalk OOP concepts
- 13:30Ruby creation influences
- 16:37Ruby on Rails impact
- 19:03Modern Smalltalk Ruby implementations
- 22:30Ruby 3.0 3x3 performance
- 25:39Ruby today future
