Philly ETE 2015 – Brian Shirai – The End Of General Purpose Languages: Rubinius 3.0 And The Next 10 Million Programs
Our approach to programming for the past 50+ years has mostly focused on specific features of a programming language. The result has been an emphasis on “general purpose” programming languages. The next 10 million programs will not be built this way. We don’t have the time. We don’t have the money. And we can’t afford to fail as we have been.