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The Ruby devroom at FOSDEM is a focused developer room around the Ruby programming language and the open source projects which implement it. While the Ruby community does have a number of regional conferences devoted to its use, opportunities for those interested in the "how it works" of Ruby interpreters and virtual machines are practically non-existent. The goal of this developer room is to discuss:
- The current state of the Ruby language
- Techniques employed by various VMs and their effectiveness
- Upcoming Ruby language features, and the challenges/benefits that they provide
- Tools and practices used to certify Ruby language conformity and performance
- Costs and Opportunities provided by the multitude of implementations
Involved projects
Why we're here
While many Ruby developers attend FOSDEM, the Ruby open source community has generally been underrepresented in the technical content of the event. With the Ruby devroom not only would the Ruby community become more plugged into the FOSDEM experience, but FOSDEM would be hosting Ruby-oriented content that is both unique and very technical. Considering the broad interest in dynamic and interpreted languages, the Ruby devroom will also provide compelling technical content interesting to members of the Python, Perl, JavaScript, Smalltalk, LLVM and Java communities. There is quite some interest in the topic, as the overcrowded Java dev room if Charles Oliver Nutter's talk on JRuby in the FOSDEM 2014 Free Java devroom is any indication.
Considering the number of notable Ruby implementations, listed below, there should be more than enough highly interesting and technical content!
- Ruby (MRI, the original C-based VM)
- JRuby (Ruby on the JVM)
- Rubinius (Ruby on Ruby)
- Topaz (Ruby on RPython, the toolkit that PyPy built)
- RubyTruffle (JRuby using Oracle's Truffle compiler)
- RubyMotion (Ruby on top of Apple's Objective-C/Cocoa foundation)
- Maglev (Ruby on the GemStone Smalltalk VM)
- Opal (A working Ruby to JavaScript transpiler)
Who we are
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