History of Ruby

Ruby was invented by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto invented in the mid 1990s. The Ruby name originated in an online chat session between Matz and Keiju Ishitsuka on Feb 14, 1993. Matz wanted a scripting language more powerful than perl, but more object oriented than Python. Ruby inspired languages like Crystal, Elixir. It is used by Companies like Airbnb, Github, Stripe, Shopify, BaseCamp, KickStarter.

Why Ruby?

  • Ruby is very flexible and expressive
  • Its emphasis is on developer productivity and simplicity
  • In ruby, everything is an object, including primitive types
  • Ruby is an open source interpreted, multi paradigm language
  • It features best in class libraries
  • Courtesy RoR, it excels at rapid web prototyping.
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