Ruby is dead. Long live Ruby

The state of Ruby in 2019. What we achieved so far, what we're working on, and what can you do next

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1. Ruby is dead. Long live Ruby
2. Aldo Ziflaj
3. Aldo Ziflaj Software Engineer
4. Aldo Ziflaj Software Engineer Jellyfish
6. AN IDIOT
8. HTML needs a “glue language”
9. HTML needs a “glue language” Let’s stick Scheme in there
11. No! It must resemble Java
12. No! It must resemble Java Aight, kewl
16. Why Ruby was great
17. Why Ruby was great •More than 10 days in the making (3-4yrs before v1)
18. Why Ruby was great •More than 10 days in the making (3-4yrs before v1) •OO done right (no self params, no stinky Prototypes)
19. Why Ruby was great •More than 10 days in the making (3-4yrs before v1) •OO done right (no self params, no stinky Prototypes) •Designed with UX in mind
20. Designed with UX in mind 5.times do puts “a smile on that face” end
21. Designed with UX in mind module Integer def odd?(num) return true unless num % 2 == 0 false end end 5.odd? # => true
22. Why Ruby was great •More than 10 days in the making (3-4yrs before v1) •OO done right (no self params, no stinky Prototypes) •Designed with UX in mind •Perl++
23. Why Ruby was great •More than 10 days in the making (3-4yrs before v1) •OO done right (no self params, no stinky Prototypes) •Designed with UX in mind •Perl++ • • •Rails
25. What we have in our hands
26. What we have in our hands •A shitton of “Is Ruby dead?” articles
27. What we have in our hands •A shitton of “Is Ruby dead?” articles •A fuckton of “Rails doesn’t scale!” articles
28. What we have in our hands •A shitton of “Is Ruby dead?” articles •A fuckton of “Rails doesn’t scale!” articles •A metric ton of hipstery hipsters writing Node.JS and Go
29. What we have in our hands •A shitton of “Is Ruby dead?” articles •A fuckton of “Rails doesn’t scale!” articles •A metric ton of hipstery hipsters writing Node.JS and Go •~6500 megaton total yield of all nuclear weapons in Earth
30. Is Ruby really dead? •Ruby v2.6.1 released on 30 Jan 2019 •Rails v6 should be out anytime now •Matz & Co. working on Ruby 3x3 •JIT Compiler by Ruby v2.6
31. Does Rails really don’t scale? •Twitter: Rails
32. Does Rails really don’t scale? •Twitter: Rails -> Scala
33. Does Rails really don’t scale? •Twitter: Rails -> Scala -> Java
34. Does Rails really don’t scale? •Twitter: Rails -> Scala -> Java •Github: Rails -> … •Shopify: Rails -> … •Basecamp: Rails -> RAILS •Hulu: Rails -> …
35. Other languages are faster •The turtle won the race •https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/YourLanguageSucks •Machine code is faster than your language
36. You need FASTER •Rubinius (like Ruby, but compiled) •JRuby (like Java, but rad) •Elixir (like Ruby, but more Erlang-y) •Crystal (like Elixir, but beta) •