At 30 years old, is Ruby in a mid-life crisis or a renaissance?
Get the Full StoryRuby s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto Matz , released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday. It spread across Japanese-language Usenet newsgroups, a popular way of exchanging conversation and media before the World Wide Web, and then reached broader communities throughout the late 1990s. This was thanks to Ruby s friendly community and, in no small part, thanks to Matz. The community has a motto, Matz is nice, and so we are nice. At this year s annual European Ruby Konferenze EuRoKu in Sarajevo, Matz said he created Ruby because he This story continues at The Next WebShare: