Q&A with Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
summary
Organizer says hiring is limited this year but the core team plans to hire one or two people and not expand further for now. Ruby 2.0 adds module boxing (a namespaced include/mix replacement), keyword arguments, and safer refinements; 2.0 is deliberately incremental rather than a rewrite. C-Ruby keeps C-level optimizations but future work targets method specialization to restore predictable dispatch. A government-backed Ruby implementation called rain ships in six months. Windows port needs contributors for I/O fixes.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50People for 20
- 1:55Fulltime employees
- 3:14Favorite Ruby feature
- 4:17Defining a method in Ruby
- 6:42Groovy
- 8:40JRuby
- 14:26Matz Ruby Interpreter
- 18:49Standard Library
- 20:18Japanese Support
- 21:32Multiple Inheritance
- 23:28How old are your kids
- 25:03Standardization
- 26:45JRuby and JDM
- 28:28Nikita
