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...