DJ Lightning Talk Outline

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Portrait of a Language as a Young Program

* Brief Intro of Matz
--Why make a new language
--Birth of Coral, err Ruby
--Early days, 3 version updates in 2 days
--Mailing list which persists today

* What Ruby Has
--What did it derive from other languages
--Which other languages have those features

* How Ruby is Built/Works
--Written in C
--Updated features over the years

* Soaring Popularity, Ruby on Rails
--Emergence of Rails and Ruby as a web language
--Benefits of a mobile language with a strong community

* Modern Comparison
--To old dogs like JS, and emerging languages like Go

* Brief Looking Ahead
--Retaining relevance/functionality
--The death of languages