Rubyists in Other Languages with James Edward Gray II and Steve Klabnik

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Rubyists in Other Languages with James Edward Gray II and Steve Klabnik

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Guests

• Steve Klabnik: Blog
• James Edward Gray II: Blog

Summary

Ruby is great. But it's not the best tool for everything. On this episode, I talk to James Edward Gray II and Steve Klabnik. Both James and Steve have made substantial contributions to the Ruby and Rails community, and they now both spend lots of time using other languages. We talk about what makes Rust and Elixir interesting for Ruby developers to learn, what some other interesting languages might be.

Notes

01:48 - Moving Towards Other Programming Languages from Ruby: Why?

03:39 - Rust

• The Rust Programming Language
• The Elm Programming Language
• The Rust Programming Language (Book) by Steve Klabnik

17:54 - Other Cool Programming Languages for Rubyists

• Scratch
• Logo
• GameSalad
• GameMaker Studio 2
• Prograph
• Abstract Syntax Tree

29:22 - Elixir

• The Elixir Programming Language
• Erlang
• Prolog
• Pattern Matching

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