Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
summary
Argues Ruby should adopt concrete features from other languages: self-bootstrapping image-based implementations like Smalltalk with 66 collection classes and 32 magnitude classes, developer tooling (workspace, refactoring browser, debugger-driven development) and a runnable inspect; Self’s VM innovations including 8 bytecodes and JIT-based speed and prototyping; Racket’s tail-call optimization and structural matching (benchmarked about 17x faster on fib); VPRI/Cola’s Combined Object/Lambda Architecture, ometa grammars and multi-layer translation that build a full GUI system in 20,000 lines.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 6:29Ruby History
- 7:00Not Much Added Since 1.0
- 8:49Brief summary of Smalltalk
- 9:54Fibonacci
- 10:41Brief summary of self
- 13:20Brief summary of racket
- 14:31Brief Summary of VPRI
- 15:17Brief Summary of COLA
- 25:49Prototyping is Handy!
- 30:07Multiple Language Support
- 31:00Speed Comparison
- 35:09Teach the GUI
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