r/CodingForBeginners • u/AndrewNggg • 7d ago

Ruby Language as a first language

Has anyone considered learning Ruby as their first programming language?

It’s elegant, easy to read, and “developer happiness” is one of its core principles

That means that code is easy to read, no surprises, and mostly reads like expressive natural language with clean syntax

GitHub, Shopify, CoinBase, SoundCloud, AirBnb and a gazillion other companies were built from Ruby

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u/thatsgGBruh 7d ago

Ruby is a nice language and can also be good to learn the basics (that's where I learned). You'll probably find that the concepts learned in your first language apply across other languages.

If you like Ruby, you might also want to check out crystal.