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This is exactly why we shouldn't use KKScript either. Plus it has 1-based array indexes.

I had a talk with Matz 1-on-1 about 6 months back and expressed my doubts about namespaces :) He's a nice guy, he just smiled.

Ractors have promise but the implementations up till now haven't had strong concurrency safety. It seems in the latest release some of the heavy-hitter contributors like Jean Boussier (byroot) have taken a detailed look at Ractors and started to clean things up.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/05/24/unlocki...

Ruby::Box in its current form seems to radically miss the mark. Any namespace paradigm only has utility if it is widely adopted across the ecosystem. Javascript did this with ES modules 10 years ago--it IS possible--but it takes a ton of buy-in and effort from the community to achieve it.

I just don't think Ruby has this "burning need" to have namespaces/modules/erm... "boxes". So we're likely to end up with sporadic usage of Boxes leading to inconsistent behavior.

ZJIT is supposed to be an improvement on YJIT. I'm happy to get any free performance improvements!

The Ruby Ractor (Actor) interface is now completely changed to use a Ractor::Port class, mirroring IPC (inter-process communication) semantics. Ractors were added in 3.0 as a way to get around the GVL/GIL, but having N number of Ruby interpreters running in a Ruby process which would enable executing on N cores at once. For me, hot take but Ractors don't seem to offer major advantages over plain-ol' copy-on-write (COW) forking.

The one "big" feature was supposed to be namespaces, which apparently have now been renamed to Ruby::Box (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/box_md.html). From what I can glean from the Ruby issue tracker, it appears this feature has been radically descoped, primarily because it had performance impacts, but also, I think probably there are realistic concerns about fit with the existing ecosystem. Unlike Javascript/Python, Ruby has never used "modules" for code isolation--everything is loaded into the global namespace (the "global dumping ground" as I call it.) Now the Box feature is only enabled with an environment variable RUBY_BOX=1

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311

Part of having personhood is that one’s ideas don’t have to have any logical or consistent basis.

Terminators make good project managers apparently

If there is one DSL which is a central abstraction of one’s entire app, used in 100s of places—this is fine.

If there is a DSL such as Rails’ URL routing, which will be the same in every app—this is also fine.

When one makes 100s of micro-DSLs for object creation, that are only ever used in one or two places—this is pure madness.

Yikes. This means that you’ll have 1000 micro-DSLs sprinkled all over your codebase, which will become unreadable and lead to confusion/accidents. Better to stick with good ol’ key-value labelling.

I, for one, won’t be installing anything from the NSO Store. Sure, call me paranoid, but I just don’t trust it.

Similar to how “math” becomes “maths”

This is exactly why no one can know my alter-ego is… Neutrino Man.

For those interested I open-sourced library in Ruby which does thermal printing: https://github.com/tablecheck/thermal/

Among other things it has very broad printer support and Chinese-Japanese-Korean character support (requires purchasing a model with the chars preloaded). It's still under active development but it references the PHP library the author mentions. This lib is actually used in a many restaurants in Asia.

Bon Nano = Good Text Editor

Broadcast them Star Trek reruns to convince them to adopt the Prime Directive.

Sharepoint is enterprisey and all but how about "less software/surface area is more" when it comes to nuclear silos?

Its probably worse—a given stack using multiple of these small providers will probably have more “single points of failure” (providers used in series rather than parallel.)

(If most companies liked using cloud providers in parallel, they’d already be doing it today between AWS, Azure, and GCP.)

Matz wouldn’t say jump from a bridge because he is nice.

Shopify is pretty much dominating the Ruby ecosystem. It’s Canadian tho :)

Surprised to hear this, have been a Rubyist for many years and never felt this way about community as a whole. Come to Ruby Kaigi in Japan sometime!

Steve should be meditating in a walled garden.

Last week I also had to burn a Picasso to stay warm.

People keep pointing the finger at North Korea but personally I suspect a Protoss High Templar causing battery overcharge is more plausible.

By this logic, most human brains are bullshit generators too. Some humans even have a complete and utter disregard for the truth. (One such human happens to own Truth Social.)

Why didn't they just climb out the ventilation shaft they fell in? Can’t they walk on the ceiling?

Bayes got us into this whole mess to begin with.

...still alive but has developed an overwhelming urge to forage for truffles.

The vast majority of “universal robots” are portrayed as humanoids in science fiction. Perhaps part of the reason is that true “universality” includes socializing, companionship, human emotions, and of course love.

This needs to be some sort of maxim: “The most useful robots are the ones that don’t look like (or try to be) humanoids.”

For some reason (judging by Fritz Lang, Gundam, etc.) humanity has some deep desire or curiosity for robots to look like humans. I wonder if cats want robot cats?

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