23 years of Ruby (Changelog Interviews #202)

Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.

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Featuring:

• Yukihiro Matsumoto – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ruby Programming Language
• Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• matz/streem: prototype of stream based programming language
• Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• mruby/mruby: Lightweight Ruby
• Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ruby Issue Tracking System

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!