The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Episode 388: Ruby is Still a Diamond with Emma Hyde
Show notes
After Emma's blog post, "Ruby is Still a Diamond", took the software engineering world by storm, Brittany and Jemma invited Emma on to the show (her podcast debut!) to ruminate why she continues to be excited about Ruby, why you should invest the effort into upgrading to Ruby 3.0, the differences between parallelism & concurrency and an introduction to Ractors.
Show Notes & Links:
- Ruby is Still a Diamond by Emma Hyde
- Dockwa
- Retention Science
- Emma Hyde on Medium
- Emma Hyde (@emmahyde) | Twitter
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