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Hiroshi Nakamura has been with Ruby from the very | |
beginning, when it was still unknown outside of Japan. | |
He's the only one who is a core member on two Ruby | |
implementations (afaik), CRuby and JRuby, and he's | |
also a significant contributor to very important | |
gems/extensions: OpenSSL, jruby-ossl and httpclient | |
were authored by him, Webrick is maintained by him | |
and he has contributed to numerous others. He's also | |
one of the driving forces behind | |
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/StdlibGem | |
aka "Gemifying the Ruby standard library". And | |
while next to a family, a job and several projects | |
to look after he sure has his plate full with tasks, | |
he is always friendly and helpful and even finds the | |
time to help others out. | |
The way how he has handled the #hashDoS vulnerability | |
that was disclosed at 28C3 was beyond exemplary, | |
his contribution was key to the fixes both for Ruby | |
1.8 and JRuby. They were delivered faster and with | |
more attention to detail than they were provided for | |
any other language.He was even mentioned favorably by | |
the researchers, putting the Ruby community in a very | |
pleasant light. | |
Hiroshi often moderates between Japanese Rubyists and | |
those from the rest of the world, helping where he can. | |
Instead of pouring fire on the "wars" over the better/best | |
Ruby implementation, I think Hiroshi is the living and | |
breathing example of what it is all about when being | |
a Rubyist - that Ruby itself as a language is awesome, | |
no matter what the implementation. | |
If anyone deserves to be called a "hero" for his | |
contributions to the Ruby ecosphere, I think Hiroshi | |
Nakamura does. |
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