RR 367: Ruby Core Language Evolution: Moving towards functional with Victor Shepelev

Jun 19, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers
David Richards

Special Guests: Victor ShepelevIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Victor Shepelev about functional programming in Ruby. Victor is a Ukrainian programmer and poet who has been programming since he was a child. He has been programming with Ruby for the past 12 years and has contributed a lot to the open source community, as well as mentors and participates in discussions about Ruby’s progress. They talk about how to approach functional programming in Ruby, changes Victor hopes to see in Ruby, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Victor intro
What is functional programming in terms of Ruby?
Used to be a computer journalist and historian of programming languages
Higher-order functions
Functional style of programming was possible from the beginning in Ruby
Haskell
Functional style in any language
Making the functional style more natural in the future
His current interests
Is pattern matching something you would like to see changed?
What are some changes in Ruby that you would like to see?
What is pattern-matching?
Seeing code in a more idiomatic way
Still a lot of discussions happening
Immutable objects
Speeding up Ruby
The more functional Ruby is becoming, the more room for optimization there is
Writing at a higher level
Elixir
Gentle extension to what is already there
The “old self”
And much, much more!

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