Episode 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton

The Ruby on Rails Podcast

English - September 29, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 69.1 MB - ★★★★ - 35 ratings
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Kevin Newton is a staff engineer at Shopify on the Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He’s working on improving the speed and efficiency of CRuby. The trio (Kevin, Nick and Brittany) discuss RubyKaiji talks, Kevin's work on the Prettier plug-in for Ruby and RegularExpression, the Shopify HackDays project Kevin and Nick worked on.
Show Notes & Links:
RegularExpression (https://github.com/kddnewton/regular_expression)
Prettier Plugin for Ruby (https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby)
Parsing Ruby (https://github.com/kddnewton/parsing-ruby)
yjit (https://github.com/Shopify/yjit)
Ruby Hacking Guide (https://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io/)
Prettier Printer (https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf)
Prettier Print Module in Ruby Core (https://github.com/ruby/prettyprint)
An Introduction to Speculative Optimization in V8 (https://ponyfoo.com/articles/an-introduction-to-speculative-optimization-in-v8)
Kevin Newton (@kddnewton) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kddnewton?lang=en)
Kevin Newton on Github (https://github.com/kddnewton)
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Show Notes & Links:

RegularExpression
Prettier Plugin for Ruby
Parsing Ruby
yjit
Ruby Hacking Guide
Prettier Printer
Prettier Print Module in Ruby Core
An Introduction to Speculative Optimization in V8
Kevin Newton (@kddnewton) | Twitter
Kevin Newton on Github

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