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Why Ruby?

Andy Hunt answers the question a lot of people are asking: Why Ruby?

1. It stays out of your way
2. It just works

Ruby’s not perfect, by any means, it’s got dark corners to the language just like every other language. But it has a lot fewer of them. For the great majority of projects, the great majority of the time, it just works.

Do you know it? What’s your experience with it?

[…] The “angry monkeys” referred to an interesting primate experiement that I wish he had referenced or at least given some more background on. The take-away I got from the talk was to think about why things are done a certain way, and question instead of following the herd. Something I’m sure most everyone could stand to do a bit more of. […]