– Chuck: Episode 367 – check it out!

– Background?

– Living in Ukraine.

– Chuck: How did you get into programming?

– Victor: I broke my leg and very bored. In ‘85-‘86 and I was gaming. Since then I got into programming and have been in it for 20 years.

– Chuck: Prince of Persia.

– Chuck: What made you stick with programming?

– Victor: I think it was magically and exotic. It still fascinates me.

– Chuck: How did you get into Ruby?

– Victor: There are great several programming attitudes – but I belong to the one that just write texts that expose the meanings. I like the text. I am a poet. When I write in Ruby (not like poetry), I write texts and that is what I’m thinking about. I loved C-Plus, Plus in the early 2000’s. For me it wasn’t fully expressive enough. I tried other things and searched other options. I met Ruby and it was love at the first sight.

– Chuck: What have you done with Ruby that you are proud of?

– Victor: The project takes my time is data integrated into itself: countries, planets, famous paintings, and so on. It’s really cool.

– Chuck: Where can you find this project?

: Victor – GitHub and some conferences.

– Chuck: You mentioned being in a company that does translation?

– Victor: Yes. It is written in Python.

– Chuck: What are you working on now?

– Victor: Yes, this project and last year I got into development of Ruby itself. I wasn’t that proficient. I am not contributing to the language itself but creating documentation (program language reference) and new features of Ruby.

– Chuck: What is the Ruby community like in Ukraine?

– Victor: It is pretty large. Don’t know if it is large to U.S. standards.

– Chuck: We’d have Meetups like 30-40-50 people and now it’s only 10-20.

– Victor: In Ukraine I think a lot of people are doing a lot of opensource. I think it will still grow to some extent.

– Chuck: It’s not that Ruby is dying per se. Ruby hit a stride when web was hot. Now we are seeing growth in AI or IOT. For example people are reaching to Python for the mathematics and scientific side to it.

– Victor adds in his comments.

– Chuck comments.

– Victor.

– Chuck: Picks!

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