MRS 052: Takashi Kokubun
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Takashi Kokubun. Takashi is a template engine hobbyist, is currently working on the JIT Compiler for Ruby 2.6, and is a Ruby on Rails application engineer at Treasure Data. He first got into programming in his first year at university where he learned C in his first part-time job. They talk about why he decided to work with Ruby, the first thing he built with it, and how you would write a templating system. They also touch on what he is working on now, what his plans are for the future, and more!
Hosted by:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guests:
Takashi Kokubun
Show Notes
Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Takashi Kokubun
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Takashi Kokubun. Takashi is a template engine hobbyist, is currently working on the JIT Compiler for Ruby 2.6, and is a Ruby on Rails application engineer at Treasure Data. He first got into programming in his first year at university where he learned C in his first part-time job. They talk about why he decided to work with Ruby, the first thing he built with it, and how you would write a templating system. They also touch on what he is working on now, what his plans are for the future, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Takashi intro
- Ruby Rogues Episode 357
- How did you first get into programming?
- Learned C in his first part-time job
- Creating iOS puzzle games
- Starting to work with Ruby on Rails
- What makes you decide to work with Ruby?
- Ruby was cleaner and simpler
- JIT compiler to make Ruby faster
- How did you find Ruby?
- Friends tweeting about Ruby
- What was the first thing you built with Ruby?
- What was it about Ruby that you really liked?
- Simple syntax
- Did you do anything in open source with Ruby before working on the JIT compiler?
- His JIT Compiler
- What goes into writing a templating system?
- Haml
- What are you working on now?
- No longer working for Cookpad
- How do you spend your time?
- What’s your favorite thing about working on all of this?
- Barbeque
- Speakerdeck slides on Barbeque
- And much, much more!
Links:
- Ruby Rogues Episode 357
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby
- Treasure Data
- JIT Compiler
- Haml
- Cookpad
- Barbeque
- Speakerdeck slides on Barbeque
- Takashi’s GitHub
- Takashi’s Medium
- @k0kubun
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