Why do people want to program in Ruby anyhow?
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My reasons for being interested in Ruby:
There’s finally a decent IDE with Intellisense for it! The lack of a good IDE has already put me off D and OCaml. When you’re just trying to learn a language, hunting through tons of documentation isn’t the most exciting thing to do.
It also helps that Ruby is easy to learn because most things work the way you expect them to
Ruby on Rails is absolutely great compared to PHP and PHP frameworks
It has interesting features like metaprogramming
Ruby is growing in popularity, and I guess the buzz tends to attract programmers.
There must be other fine languages which I just haven’t tried though (e.g. Python), so it could be a factor too.