Ruby
A Programmer's Best Friend
Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language first released in 1995, known for its elegant and readable syntax designed to maximize developer happiness. It features a vast ecosystem of over 200,000 libraries called gems, mature frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and comprehensive tooling for web development, data processing, and more. The language emphasizes simplicity, expressiveness, and productivity, making it accessible to beginners while remaining powerful for experienced developers.
Ruby is a general-purpose programming language with natural-language-like syntax, metaprogramming capabilities, and a rich package ecosystem (gems) that can be installed and combined to build applications quickly.
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Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Launched
- 1995
Founders
- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
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