Keynote: Reinventing Wheels of the Future
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Language gets reinvented because motivation and diversity drive innovation, not because resources are infinite. Ruby is born Feb 24 1993 and grows from an expected under‑100 niche to millions of users today. Ruby 2 adds concrete features: keyword arguments, lazy evaluation, Module#prepend and scoped refinements; people are shipping a release candidate and asked to report trunk bugs. A compact implementation, mruby runs in a few hundred KB on tiny boards, and that smaller VM already works for mobile embedding.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Reinventing programming wheels
- 5:04Why reinventing wheels matters
- 9:48Diversity in programming languages
- 13:27Programmers as language designers
- 16:48Better tool design needed
- 17:30Ruby’s global impact
- 20:02Two decades of Ruby
- 21:50Ruby 2.0 features
- 25:52Improving Ruby together
- 26:56Introducing mruby
- 28:27Summary and call to action
