At one of the Little Language conferences in Cambridge, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto gave a talk on his Ruby language to an audience made up largely of academics, language designers, and language ...

For the Ruby programming language, the update to version 3.4 brings a new keyword for block parameters with "it" and Prism as a new standard parser. The development team behind the dynamic and ...

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 ...

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 ...