Panel:

Eric Berry

Special Guests: Sihui HuangIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Sihui Huang about his article "How to Contribute to Ruby." Sihui is currently a back-end engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies. They talk about her experience in the programming world, why she chose to work with Ruby, and they touch on her article and why she decided to write it. They also touch on the three focuses for Ruby 3, if she thinks Ruby has a long time future, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Sihui intro
Back-end engineer at Gusto
Working with Rails and Ruby
How old is the app?
How long have you been programming in Ruby?
Why Ruby?
Working with Ruby is like talking to a friend
"How to Contribute to Ruby"
What is your experience with Mats?
Try to keep decision making as open as possible
The three focuses for Ruby 3
How Ruby is trying to achieve concurrency
Room for improvement
Do you see Ruby having a long time future?
Ruby is not going anywhere
The philosophy of having a small team
The assumption that you need a big team to have a big company
Tooling
Many core contributors don’t use Ruby themselves
Enjoying the language
Type checking
What benefits come from type checking?
Compilers to detect errors
And much, much more!

Links:

RR 375: "How to Contribute to Ruby" with Sihui Huang