Presentation at Nordic Ruby, June 2011

1. Beyond Ruby
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2. Everything is f*ing dynamic

3. Ruby is not

4. In the next 15 minutes
• How I came to my opinion
• Why I donʼt think Ruby is dynamic
• What to do about it
• When weʼll know weʼre there

5. Static checking is good. Casting is evil.

6. New perspectives

7. Combine the best of two worlds!

8. It failed

9. Open up a new set of possibilities

10. Ruby disappoints

11. list.filter(function(x) { return x > 0 })
list.select { |x| x > 0 }
filter (> 0) list

12. ||
!
&&

13. EVERYTHING IS AN OBJECT!!!

14. A dynamic language should be moldable

15. Syntax unification

16. Operators on steroids

17. Call by name

18. We are not there yet

19. Safety? Performance?

20. What can Blub do?
What can’t Blub do?
@jakobmattsson
jakobmattsson.se