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2023 speaker

Charles Nutter

Charles Nutter

The JRuby Guy, Red Hat

Red Hat

Charles has been a professional developer for thirty years and a full-time JRuby contributor since 2006. He has been named a "Java Champion" and a "Ruby Hero" for his work on JRuby, bringing the Ruby and Java worlds together and pushing both forward. Charles is a JVM language developer and advocate at Red Hat.

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2023 · keynote

Bringing Ruby to the JVM: Making the Impossible Possible

Over the past 18 years, the JRuby team has worked to bring Ruby to the JVM, defying impossible challenges and building the most successful alternative Ruby implementation in the world. Today, JRuby is actively developed and deployed at thousands of Ruby and Java shops around the world... but how did we get here? This talk provides a retrospective of the JRuby project, with examples of modern JRuby usage along the way.

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