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Make Ruby Great Again [video]

by jm3 on 5/15/16, 8:02 PM with 2 comments

• by jm3 on 5/15/16, 8:03 PM

  This link jumps to the actual beginning of the talk, skipping the preamble which is mostly specific to RSpec, focusing instead on the crisis the Ruby community currently faces[1] and the opportunity / responsibility the community has to respond.

  [1] namely that the shiny newness of M.E.A.N. and Node/React/Angular plus the widely discussed performance challenges of Ruby & Rails have put Ruby + Rails on the back burner in the zeitgeist.

• by Tomte on 5/15/16, 8:11 PM

  "Google is not gonna drop Go. Unless they feel like it." g