Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Dave Kimura

Special Guest: 

Hal Fulton

In this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Hal Fulton. Hal is one of the first few people to learn the Ruby language in the beginning from the Japanese. Hal describes the history Ruby and his journey to before an author of the book The Ruby Way. This book was one of the few foundational elements Ruby developers of today.

Hal has recently presented at the Ruby Dev Summit, on Is Elixir the new Ruby? The panel asks questions about, how or if, Elixir is possibly out there to replace Ruby. Hal talks about the pros and con of Ruby in today’s world fo development. Also, the practicality of Elixir and how it fits into our world today.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Hal talks about the history of Ruby
Ruby does not handle multiple processors
The Free Lunch is Over - Moore’s Law
The future is in multiple core and or processors
OOP or FP
Immutability
Rail helped Ruby in the uptake
Speed and Threads of Elixir
Phoenix
Erline, Raya - Elixir
Elixer is easier on the eyes as far as syntax
Tools you are using can wear you down
What is Elixir missing? Time and Date issues
and much much more.


Links: 


The Ruby Way
http://therubyway.io
https://github.com/hal9000
@hal9000


Picks:

Hal


The Secret History - Books
The Shadow of the Wind - Book
The Mars Society  -  Organization
The Long Now Foundation -  Organization
Gesture App for iPad


Dave


Interact JS


Chuck


Getting back into Coding
egghead.io
devchat.tv/15minutes

Special Guest: Hal Fulton.