matz

After he left the room filled with discussion around how Matz was judgemental, or how Matz was loosing touch with the Ruby culture.

Now someone convince Matz to reimplement Ruby in crystal, add optional typing to CRuby, and you have won big time.

Why, look at the cult-like following Matz enjoys for creating a half-baked Smalltalk and Perl knock-off.

Because of that Ruby and Matz deserve every ounce of credit that they get.

Ruby inherited this behavior from Emacs (matz' favorite text editor) among other things.

I think Matz realizes that with the rise of Javascript transpilers Ruby is going to have to fight hard to remain relevant.

I don't know if I've read Matz actually revealing this (maybe I just haven't googled hard enough, or maybe it's there in Japanese somewhere), but the influence is pretty evident from the outcome.

Ruby descended from lisp, according to matz.

It may not be possible to design a best-in-class language without some kind of top-down planning, or even without an auteur like Matz or Hejlsberg managing the vision part.

Pretty much there is a soul behind each language, Ricky Hicky for Clojure, Guido van Rossum for Python, Matz for Ruby, and Rob Pike for Go.

I wish matz didn't remove macros in the first place.

The problems I had because of dynamic typing have not been big enough to go through all that pain again (and code pollution.) We'll see what Matz ends up proposing to us, then we'll discuss it.

It's especially jarring when the Ruby world - which originally revolved around "Matz is nice so we are nice", emphasizing developer happiness, being a more readable Perl, etc.

Just a "hey I am working on this thing, come and pair with me if you would like." Matz was working on MRuby at the time and came in.

"Why I’m betting on Elixir And why you should too..." That was (part of) the article title, which Matz just quoted.

> In the Ruby world, we insist that “Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice,” ignoring the sexist statements he has made with regard to diversity outreach efforts.

Matz himself has said he regrets putting these variables in the language, and some day they may disappear.

Matz was talking about concept, not implementation; MRI is not literally a Lisp interpreter with macros removed.

Matz, on top of being a well known coder, is also a relatively well known Mormon, meaning he doesn't drink.