Ruby

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Comment by Script Kiddies on October 30, 2009 at 6:19am

Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has drawn devoted coders worldwide. In 2006, Ruby achieved mass acceptance. With active user groups formed in the world’s major cities and Ruby-related conferences filled to capacity.

Graph courtesy of Gmane.

Ruby-Talk, the primary mailing list for discussion of the Ruby language has climbed to an average of 200 messages per day.

The TIOBE index, which measures the growth of programming languages, ranks Ruby as #9 among programming languages worldwide. Much of the growth is attributed to the popularity of software written in Ruby, particularly the Ruby on Rails web framework2.

Ruby is also totally free. Not only free of charge, but also free to use, copy, modify, and distribute.

Comment by Script Kiddies on October 30, 2009 at 6:18am

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

He has often said that he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple,” in a way that mirrors life.

Building on this, he adds:

Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body1.