Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
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Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#2interestingly, the official press release mentions that matz will retain his positions at NaCL and Rakuten Institute of Technology.
http://news.heroku.com/news_releases/ruby-creator-yukihiro-m...
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#3Congrats James. Leave some Ruby luminaries for other companies :)
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#4Congrats to Heroku - it's certainly a fitting parternship! I wouldn't put anything past them. With such an amazing team and insatiable ambition, they're going to be leaving a mark on history.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#5Very 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?
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#6Wow.
I like the idea of Heroku going the same way as EngineYard. And investing in technology.
But dreww is correct, he's keeping his other positions so is this merely a marketing and bragging rights thing?
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#7Wow, 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 a Corporate Overlord, benign though it may be.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#8Wow. I like the idea of Heroku going the same way as EngineYard. And investing in technology. But dreww is correct, he's keeping his other positions so is this merely a marketing and bragging rights thing?
"Bragging" might be a bit hard; I'd say they're happy/honored to give back to an awesome community.
Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#9Wow, 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…
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Re: Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
#10Heroku is nice so we are nice?