Keynote
summary
Ruby aims for programmer happiness and that reduces to a business claim: happy developers produce more and better code. mail gem takes two years to build and now reports 122 million downloads ~300 forks ~200 contributors. JVM work (JRuby) and Rubinius tighten performance but the real leverage is rapid prototypes and a focus on an exchangeable valuable final product that a client can put in production and monetize. Academic data on 2,178 units links productivity to employee happiness.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:22My Ruby journey
- 8:44Ruby in Australia
- 10:10Ruby’s commercial future
- 11:15Ruby vs other languages
- 17:03Ruby’s value for clients
- 22:01Ruby’s PR challenge
- 23:46Ruby’s core goal
- 27:20Happy developers
- 31:36Exchangeable Ruby
- 34:03What makes Ruby exchangeable
- 36:29Power of exchange
- 39:00Delivering final products
- 41:29Beyond the client
- 44:05Optimizing for exchangeable Ruby
- 45:30Defending value delivery
