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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
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Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#12So Heroku now owns Ruby.
Not that I think this will lead anywhere particularly bad.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#13Wow, nice move, guys! One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay very neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having…
I've always dreamed of a world with more things like the Linux Foundation. I'd love to see a Ruby foundation or something like that
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#14Very cool. I wonder what Matz will work on directly for Heroku. I understand that he will continue to work on the language, but what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
> what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
I think his presence there will serve two purposes: 1) share his Ruby cachet with Heroku, and 2) when Heroku finds a way to improve Ruby, they have a way to fast-track it now, big time.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#15So Heroku now owns Ruby. Not that I think this will lead anywhere particularly bad.
It really doesn't. It can't change Ruby in a major way, can't charge for it, can't close-source it, etc. even if it's paying the creator.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#16So Heroku now owns Ruby. Not that I think this will lead anywhere particularly bad.
> So Heroku now owns Ruby.
Nah, I don't think so. Ruby is a community effort. Should Matz ever turn into an asshole (which just seems hiiiighly unlikely), someone else would fork the project.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#17I remember when RubyGems got forked as SlimGems, there was a discussion about Rails' importance in the overall Ruby community. patio11 wrote:
I use Rails, and love Rails, but back home Rails is not yet the core Ruby use case, not by a long shot. Rails has peculiar needs with regards to typical Ruby applications, and a certain portion of the developer community feels that people who write themselves peculiar needs can write their own solutions to them. [1]
With Matz working on the most Rails-oriented hosting platform, perhaps this will change.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#18Wow, nice move, guys! One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay very neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having…
I've always dreamed of a world with more things like the Linux Foundation. I'd love to see a Ruby foundation or something like that
Be the change you'd like to see.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#19Wow, nice move, guys! One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay very neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having…
He did receive stock options from them
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#20Interesting note:
With Rasmus Lerdorf working at WePay, this means the creators of the two most presently popular web programming languages, Ruby and PHP, are now working for YC companies.
(Which is a teency stretch since Heroku is now SalesForce and hence no longer really a YC company, but we'll count them to keep it interesting.)