The sky is falling!!! Life as we know it is over! These pretzels are making me thirsty! There’s been a lot of talk recently regarding the health of Ruby. Is it dying? Does it have Lupus? (Hint, it’s never Lupus). I sit down with Sandi Metz, Ernie Miller, and Johnny Bourisquot for a candid discussion about what the future holds for one of our favorite languages.
Mark Bates is the founder and chief architect of the Boston, MA based consulting company, Meta42 Labs. Mark spends his days focusing on new application development and consulting for his clients. At night he writes books, raises kids, and occasionally he forms a band and “tries to make it”. Mark is the author of three books, “Distributed Programming with Ruby” (2009), “Programming in CoffeeScript” (2012), and “Conquering the Command Line” (2014). He also runs the weekly screencast site, www.metacasts.tv.