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Matz on Ruby 2.0 at Heroku's Waza

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85 pointsDanielRibeiro12 comments

Nothing earth-shattering if you've been following 2.0 development at home, but seeing Matz is always a pleasure, and he does a good job of summarizing all the major changes.

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/yukihiro_matz/ruby-2-dot-0-en

kudos. Matz is cool but he's the most annoying speaker I've ever heard, his voice literally hurts my ears!

This was the first time I heard him speak, and I thought it was a really funny and informative delivery. Of course, he has a very thick accent, but he can get his thoughts across pretty well. Being German, I'm used to English presentations so horrible they don't just assault your ears, they try to melt your brain. Some of those I might have delivered myself. This keynote was not one of those.

It's always great to actually hear the creator of a project speak, to get a feel for what they're about and what kind of personality they have. I immediately liked Linus Torvalds when I heard him speak, and I was immediately sure that Brendan Eich was not my kind of person to put it mildly.

For this reason, I was quite curious to "meet" the guy behind Ruby, even more so because my image of the Ruby community is one of pure abrasiveness and arrogance. So, Matz is nice and funny. I'm glad I watched that.

He's basically the same personality if you ever meet him in person, it's not a stage act for the presentation.

There is a saying among the best, most wonderful kind of people in the Ruby community: "We are nice because Matz is nice."

If you've had different experiences, I'm very sad to hear that!

Actually, his accent is a lot better than that of any other member of the core Ruby team I've heard speak. Probably due to more practice..

Something interesting I noticed during his presentation at Waza was his use of a presentation software called "rabbit." It allowed him to see how far ahead/behind he was in the presentation given a preset amount of time. Anyone have any information on the software?

http://rabbit-shocker.org/en/

It would be so nice if Keynote had that feature.

Why not just use rabbit?

I really like Matz. His kind, joyful attitude in himself and towards the language was one of the reasons that got me interested in Ruby. However, this latest news of misconduct on the Heroku part left me with mixed feelings about his place of employment.

I really enjoyed the Game vs. API talk at Waza. Also the Heroku decorations were stylish. I never imagined so much black and purple could look good inside.

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