GrillRB 2019 - Deconstructing the hype: What people think is wrong with Ruby?

GrillRB Conference 2019

Link to the presentation: https://prezi.com/view/xgsEq11TqV8yVlwgQSgq/

We spend a big portion of our days doing Ruby, perhaps some of us write more Ruby than we do our native natural languages. Over the past few years, there is a noticed hype of criticising ruby as a programming language without stating solid arguments.

Sadly, the common tendency in our industry is to follow hypes without solid claims backing them. Therefore, I started my project of talking to influential people in the ruby community trying to deconstruct the hype and form a constructive list of problems we as ruby community believe should be addressed in order for us to move forward.

In this talk, I want to talk about the story of my project “What is wrong with ruby?” what is the progress so far? and what can we all do to contribute shaping the future of our technology stack.