Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku • Hacker News Board

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by dschobel » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 1:09 AM UTC

I can't imagine he's actually going to hack on the product, right? Is something like this a prestige move?

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by powerslave12r » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 1:31 AM UTC

spooneybarger wrote: post #38

wheels wrote: post #20

Interesting 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.)

I'd love to know how Ruby is one of the two most popular web programming languages. I love ruby but from what I see here in NYC, I'd say python is more popular. Are we trading anecdotes here? Or is that two most popular based on a metric from somewhere?

You're reading too much into the words.

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by jshen » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 1:56 AM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #26

jshen wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/

Wow, why didn't I know about that already! Anyone know if they have plans to fund developers?

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by minikomi » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:19 AM UTC

skarayan wrote: post #5

Very 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?

It seems it's more about giving focus to the ruby dev effort, and (paraphrasing from Matz) getting feedback from Heroku as to how ruby can be adapted to fit more comfortably in a cloud computing environment.

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by clutchski » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:22 AM UTC

It's very interesting that the creators of Python and Ruby are working on PaaS hosting solutions for their languages: Guido at Google App Engine and Matz at Heroku.

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by bradendouglass » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:35 AM UTC

spooneybarger wrote: post #38

wheels wrote: post #20

Interesting 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.)

I'd love to know how Ruby is one of the two most popular web programming languages. I love ruby but from what I see here in NYC, I'd say python is more popular. Are we trading anecdotes here? Or is that two most popular based on a metric from somewhere?

Ruby is popular in the sense of Rails and the tools that it has spawned to help us web workers better deal with the web...my 02c

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by kristianp » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:36 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #39

wheels wrote: post #20

Interesting 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.)

Javascript seems a tad more popular than Ruby.

Only on the client ;)

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by bradendouglass » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:46 AM UTC

petenixey wrote: post #21

This is really great to see. It's so seldom that a company goes from strength to strength post acquisition. With notable exceptions like Android, companies at best hold their trajectory while most disintegrate. Heroku just keeps getting better though. The releases of things like Cedar and node support are a huge indication of the platform's forward momentum and this news is quite the coup d'etat. Kudos to the Heroku…

Completely agree with this. So many mid sized (read::fairly cool) startups are being swallowed by large companies these days, just to be salvo-ed in a basement and eventually lost.

I figured Heroku would have had the same fate, glad they are (without a doubt) blazing on.

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by bradendouglass » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 2:49 AM UTC

nanoanderson wrote: post #12

So Heroku now owns Ruby. Not that I think this will lead anywhere particularly bad.

Matz created...and to what I understand still develops MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter). Rubinius and jRuby are coming on strong from the Engine Yard team.

Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Post by voidfiles » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 3:32 AM UTC

wheels wrote: post #20

Interesting 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.)

Ruby isn't as popular as python, java, or javascript, http://langpop.com/, where did you get your data from?