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Heroku pays Ko1 and Matz [0], and Heroku is owned by Salesforce, which is a public company. Granted, Salesforce doesn't have Google or FB's war chest -- but it'
by jxf 12y ago
Heroku pays Ko1 and Matz [0], and Heroku is owned by Salesforce, which is a public company. Granted, Salesforce doesn't have Google or FB's war chest -- but it's not like Ruby isn't being supported by companies.
[0]: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku
- arnvald 12y agoApart from Koichi, there's one more person - Nobu - who is working on CRuby full-time. Nobu's the guy with most commits to CRuby. Matz now does not work on CRuby, only on MRuby and the language specification. It's also worth noticing that another implementation, JRuby is supported by Redhat. IIRC 2 people work on it full-time: Charles Nutter (Headius) and Thomas Enebo
- nirvdrum 12y agoThere's a few of us at Oracle working on an alternative backend via JRuby, as well. Chris Seaton gave a talk on it at RubyConf last week. He has a series of posts about it that are pretty good: http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/ http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/ Obviously, this isn't people being directly paid to work on MRI, but there are side benefits like a richer set of rubyspecs and sometimes fixes landing in MRI.
- timr 12y agoThat was a great talk -- really sort of mind-warping to think that there are people working on "de-optimizing" the JVM so that Ruby can run faster in the average case.
- rmchugh 12y agothanks for that, wasn't aware of that connection.