# Is there an official ruby road map?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 24, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731 "2008-08-24T21:13:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/1 "2008-08-24T21:13:06Z")

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Is there one for Ruby and if not does it really matter?

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**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/2 "2008-08-24T21:30:42Z")

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john maclean wrote:

> Is there one for Ruby and if not does it really matter?

would be cool to know what matz is planning.

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**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/3 "2008-08-24T21:40:39Z")

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matu wrote:

> john maclean wrote:
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> > Is there one for Ruby and if not does it really matter?
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> would be cool to know what matz is planning.

Yes there is this kind of road map. Install Ruby 1.9 and see for  
yourself!

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**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/4 "2008-08-24T21:51:12Z")

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2008/8/24 Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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Done that.

sloccount build/ruby-1.9.0-r18217/

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):  
ansic: 321501 (51.67%)  
ruby: 278132 (44.70%)  
yacc: 16395 (2.63%)  
sh: 2574 (0.41%)  
lisp: 1771 (0.28%)  
tcl: 949 (0.15%)  
pascal: 633 (0.10%)  
sed: 155 (0.02%)  
perl: 62 (0.01%)  
python: 47 (0.01%)  
awk: 36 (0.01%)  
asm: 25 (0.00%)

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/5 "2008-08-24T23:40:43Z")

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Phlip wrote:

> Yes there is this kind of road map. Install Ruby 1.9 and see for yourself!

sure. but skim through a “changelog of planned features” would be  
comfortable for lazy people like me 🙂

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**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-ruby-road-map/146731/6 "2008-08-25T02:07:30Z")

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:35 PM, matu [m@t.u](mailto:m@t.u) wrote:

> Phlip wrote:
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> > Yes there is this kind of road map. Install Ruby 1.9 and see for yourself!
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> sure. but skim through a “changelog of planned features” would be  
> comfortable for lazy people like me 🙂

[http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes+in+Ruby+1.9](http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes+in+Ruby+1.9)

Though I couldn’t find the most up to date one, if there is one.

-greg