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+title: "At 30 years old, is Ruby in a mid-life crisis or a renaissance?"
+publishDate: 2024-11-11
+author: "Chris Ward"
+publication_url: "https://thenextweb.com/news/at-30-years-old-is-ruby-in-a-mid-life-crisis-or-a-renaissance"
+categories:
+  - writing
+tags:
+  - Ruby
+  - Programming
+image: "../../../assets/images/articles/ruby.jpeg"
+---
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+Ruby’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.
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+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 was “lazy and full of hubris.”
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+That doesn’t sound like a justification for creating and maintaining a programming language for 30 years, but it’s a sign of his derisive humbleness that feeds Ruby and has kept it a generally welcoming community over the decades.