Very cool. I wonder what Matz will work on directly for Heroku. I understand that he will continue to work on the language, but what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
> what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
I think his presence there will serve two purposes: 1) share his Ruby cachet with Heroku, and 2) when Heroku finds a way to improve Ruby, they have a way to fast-track it now, big time.
It seems it's more about giving focus to the ruby dev effort, and (paraphrasing from Matz) getting feedback from Heroku as to how ruby can be adapted to fit more comfortably in a cloud computing environment.
I think his presence there will serve two purposes: 1) share his Ruby cachet with Heroku, and 2) when Heroku finds a way to improve Ruby, they have a way to fast-track it now, big time.