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Discussion on: Lets look: Ruby

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Scott Tadman

Even if Ruby was a dying language, which it isn't, it'd be worth learning to get a taste for how Ruby approaches problems.

It's a fantastic language for beginners with a fairly easy syntax and very succinct but descriptive method names, but it's also subtly powerful because of a very rich standard library and a huge repository of "gem" community-contributed add-in code.

You may want to call this "Why does Ruby keep coming up?" as people not familiar with it may wonder why it gets so much attention when it's a relative outsider compared to PHP and C#.

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George

Completely agree with you, I don't see Ruby dying at all right now or in the near future if anything it's just going to continue to spike in popularity. I've suggested to people before to learn Ruby as it's one of the most friendly languages I've ever touched.