what's eating ruby?
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Presentation given at RuLu 2014 in Lyon, France.TRANSCRIPT
What’s Eating Ruby?The Future of Ruby the Language
and the Community
What’s up with Ruby?
“Ruby is maturing up nicely” “Ruby isn't cool any more”
http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/
What’s up with Ruby?
“Ruby is a dying language”
http://rubini.us/2013/10/15/introducing-rubinius-x/
What’s up with Ruby?
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html
Oh NOES!!1!
Is Ruby Dying?Are you at a Ruby
Conference?
http://rubyconferences.org/
Take a trip with me…
Take a trip with me…
Whoops!
…a little further
…a little further
“Begin at the beginning”C
“Begin at the beginning”C
“Begin at the beginning”Java
“Begin at the beginning”Perl
A Better Way
Do we really need header files, verbose types, and crazy sigils?
A Better WayRuby
"I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy
programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language."
A Better WayWhy didn’t C, Java, or Perl “optimize for
programmer happiness”?
• Technical limitations
• Laziness
• Complacency
The Problem…
“Optimize for programmer happiness”– Matz
“We’re not happy…”– Every programmer
…ever
More happiness…Literals
Common Lisp
More happiness…Literals
Clojure
More happiness…Pipes
C
More happiness…Pipes
C
More happiness…Pipes
C
More happiness…Pipes
Ruby
More happiness…Pipes
Go
More happiness…Multimethods
Ruby
More happiness…Multimethods
Julia
Is ?
Ruby’s Still Got It• When was the last time you used threads?
• Is there another (better) way to do concurrency?
Ruby’s Still Got It
• Don’t let them tell you dynamic typing is no good!
Ruby
Ruby’s Still Got It
• Don’t let them tell you dynamic typing is no good!
Julia
Ruby’s Still Got It
• Community is a wonderful thing…
A Ruby Wish List
• JavaScript is assembly for the web
A Ruby Wish List
• Mobile is the (near-term) future
A Ruby Wish List• Maybe types aren’t all bad?
• Kill the “sacred cow”!
Will I be using Ruby 20 years from now?
Maybe…
Maybe not…
I’ll always be a part of the Ruby Community
fin