Lotus RubyDay 2015

Transcript

1. Lotus & The Future Of Ruby @jodosha / #lotusrb
6. The future of Ruby
7. Will Ruby die?
10. Programming Languages Rank 0% 0,75% 1,5% 2,25% 3% Ruby Erlang Haskell Go Rust Elixir Clojure Source: TIOBE
11. Let’s imagine the future
12. The future is polyglot
13. Modern system languages are more developer friendly than C/C++
14. Maintenance costs for infrastructure will be less and less relevant
15. Ruby isn’t used anymore for components that require improved performances
16. Web applications will still use Ruby
17. Ruby is here to stay
18. Ruby is desperately trying to catch these new languages’ features, but this is a mistake
19. “We can’t make promises” - Matz
20. We need to find a new sense of purpose for Ruby
21. Ruby has to become the first-class solution for a well defined set of problems
22. Let’s have a look at the present
23. Homebrew
26. Thanks to a beautiful DSL, Homebrew has become a successful project with ~4000 formulæ
27. ORMs
29. Sonic Pi
31. Thanks to its expressiveness, Ruby can build bridges that reach complex systems
32. Docker uses raw BASH commands
34. MRuby
36. Let’s talk about humans
37. Like a natural language, a programming language is dead without people using it
38. Kids creating music with Sonic PI Credit: sonic-pi.net
39. Kids playing with “Hello Ruby” Credit: helloruby.com
40. People learning Ruby & web development Credit: railsgirls.com
41. Ruby can be an entry point for life changing careers
42. I hope that the Ruby Community of the future will be a safe place where everyone can feel welcome
43. We should improve Ruby ecosystem in order to attract experienced engineers from other languages
44. Web
45. Why not Rails?
49. Lotus Philosophy
50. Lightweight
51. Features as of v0.5.0 • Thread-safety • Full featured HTTP router • RESTful resources • Actions and views as objects • Actions callbacks • Code sharing • Exception handling • Sessions • Secure Cookies • HTTP Caching • Automatic MIME Types • 20+ Template engines • Partials and layouts • Presenters • Routing helpers • Form helpers • HTML helpers • Automatic markup escape • CSRF and XSS prevention • Force SSL • Entities • Repositories • Data Mapper • SQL and Memory adapters • Dirty Tracking • Reusable validations • Mailers • Multiple environments • Static assets • JSON body parser • Params whitelisting and validation • Code generators • Rack servers support • Application console • Database console • Powerful CLI • Migrations • RSpec, Minitest and Capybara support • Several architectures • And more..
52. 0 17,5 35 52,5 70 Ruby Rack Sinatra Lotus Rails Dependencies Memory
53. On average, we use only a fraction of the features that a gem provides.
54. Lotus depends on a few gems. You can be sure that all the loaded code is useful for your application.
55. A complete framework
56. Lotus goes beyond “Flat-MVC” by providing a set of collaborators for “Full-MVC”.
57. Future plans
58. Lotus::Assets • Helpers • Third Party Gems • Preprocessors • Deployment
59. “Today’s good practices are HTTP/2 antipatterns” - Ilya Grigorik
60. Experimental HTTP/2 support
63. GitHub: jodosha/panther jodosha/instants
64. http://lotusrb.org/hackday
65. http://lotusrb.org/mailing-list Subscribe to the mailing list at:
66. http://lotusrb.org
67. http://lucaguidi.com
68. Q&A
69. https://speakerdeck.com/jodosha/ lotus-rubyday-2015 Slides available at:
70. Thank you
71. Credits Ruby picture by Orbital Joe https://flic.kr/p/79UqQM