Ruby_Committers_and_the_World_-_RubyKaigi_2025.pdf

Discussion Topics for the Ruby Committers at RubyKaigi 2025

(not all topics were covered)

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1. RubyCommitters and the World Hosted by Shopify
2. Special Thanks to Organizations supporting Ruby development Hosting CDN Build server Server Monitoring Password Manager Before we begin...
3. ono-max (Naoto Ono) New Ruby Committers since RubyKaigi 2024 eileencodes (Eileen) shioimm (Misaki Shioi) ydah (Yudai Takada) tompng (tomoya ishida) ima1zumi (Mari Imaizumi)
4. What is "Ruby Committers and the World"? All Ruby Committers at RubyKaigi get on stage Like the Ruby DevMeeting "Dev meeting IS NOT a decision-making place." Instead, hear the Ruby Committers chat about some interesting and fun topics!
5. Session README This session will be bilingual Committers are free to use English or ೔ຊޠ Committers: Please state your name before speaking Shout-out to the JA->EN interpreters ❤ Feel free to comment and ask questions in Discord Channel: #rubykaigi-a
6. Discussion Time
7. Topic: Revisiting Matz's "Crazy Idea" from 2020: Static Barrier
8. What do you think about the Namespace proposal?
9. Topic: Ruby 4.0 Deprecations For Ruby 4.0, what do you want to deprecate?
10. What part of Ruby would you change if you didn't need to consider backwards compatibility?
11. Do you use AI (LLMs) to help write Ruby? Are any parts of Ruby already written by AI? Ruby and LLMs/AI
12. Topic: ZJIT Opinions on ZJIT?
13. Ractor::Port vs Ractor::Channel
14. SHARABLE_MIDDLE_SUB STRING optimization: Is it worth fi nishing & enabling?
15. Will _id2ref be removed?