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    What is Ruby?

    Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.

    Ruby enjoys a large number of libraries and users.

    It is based on Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp.
    Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it is therefore similar in varying respects to Python, Perl, Lisp, Dylan, and CLU.

    Ruby is often compared to Python, Ruby is used for CLI, GUI Programs and also Web Applications, popular MVC Web framework "Ruby on Rails" is developed in Ruby.
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    This is by far my favorite scripting language. It's so easy yet very powerfull.

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    Ruby has very simple syntax, in my oponion ruby is the best programming language
    Positive comment • over 4 years ago • as an alternative to  Python Python

    Good selection of libraries, easy-to-read syntax, and multiple ways to do most operations
    Positive comment • over 3 years ago • as an alternative to  FreeBASIC FreeBASIC

    Buster_Blue Both are high level, general purpose programming languages, and they have a similar syntax.
    Positive comment • over 4 years ago • as an alternative to  Python Python

    Platform details

    Mac: Installed by default on newer Mac OS X versions
    Windows: Download and Install the Ruby Interpreter
    Linux: Doesn't comes as a default, but available in most package repositories of major distributions

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    • programming

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    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Ruby, and it has gotten 255 likes

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    Ruby was added to AlternativeTo by b2bwild on Jan 18, 2010 and this page was last updated Aug 10, 2021.

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