How is software born? It’s not quite the first question you expect to hear uttered by a keynote speaker at a programming conference, but this is the genial, Japanese creator of the Ruby programming ...

'I really thought this would be a little art project,' says Linda Liukas, after crowdfunding project beats original $10k goal On 23 January, Linda Liukas launched a Kickstarter project to raise $10k ...

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for the next decade. On December 21, 2025, the Ruby language turned 30 years old ...

Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, just published an incident report regarding ...

When Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in the mid-1990s he did so with programmer productivity as a priority. The result was a powerful, flexible language with an elegant syntax that reads and ...