S1:E4 - Should Ruby Still Be a Thing in 2020

Ruby is a scripting language created in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. It's popularity surged in Japan by 2000, which was also when the first English language book about the language, Programming Ruby was printed. After that, Ruby had its sunrise and sunset in terms of favor amongst developers, but continues to have a robust community of users. In this episode, we talk about the history of the language, some of its benefits and pitfalls, and why we continue to use it at DEV, with Vaidehi Joshi, senior software engineer at DEV, and James Harton, software engineer at Balena, and author of the 2018 DEV post, "Please stop using Ruby."

Show Notes

• DevNews (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• DataStax (sponsor)
• Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Stellar (sponsor)
• GitHub
• Distributed system
• Ruby
• Balena
• Please stop using Ruby
• Please keep using Ruby
• Rails
• Ruby New Zealand
• Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
• Rust
• Elixir
• MINASWAN
• JavaScript
• Open source
• https://elm-lang.org/
• Duck typing
• Node
• Shopify
• Stripe
• COBOL
• Go
• Java
• The Odin Project
• reddit
• PHP
• Crystal
• Base.cs
• Python
• C
• Perl
• Smalltalk

James Harton

James is a senior software engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has over 20 years experience in network and software engineering, and system administration. He is strongly focused on diversity, collaboration, ethics, and mental health in the tech industry. He loves to make things.

Vaidehi Joshi

Vaidehi Joshi is a software engineer, creator of the Base.cs blog series, and co-host of the Base.cs podcast.