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June 18, 2011
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Beyond Ruby

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June 18, 2011

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Transcript

  1. Beyond Ruby @jakobmattsson jakobmattsson.se

  2. Everything is f*ing dynamic

  3. Ruby is not

  4. • How I came to my opinion • Why I

    don’t think Ruby is dynamic • What to do about it • When we’ll know we’re there In the next 15 minutes

  5. Static checking is good. Casting is evil.

  6. New perspectives

  7. Combine the best of two worlds!

  8. It failed

  9. Open up a new set of possibilities

  10. Ruby disappoints

  11. list.select { |x| x > 0 } filter (> 0)

    list list.filter(function(x) { return x > 0 })

  12. && || !

  13. EVERYTHING IS AN OBJECT!!!

  14. A dynamic language should be moldable

  15. Syntax unification

  16. Operators on steroids

  17. Call by name

  18. We are not there yet

  19. Safety? Performance?

  20. What can Blub do? @jakobmattsson jakobmattsson.se What can’t Blub do?