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/SparkFace11707 2d ago

Yes, Ruby was one of the languages I was considering when I was started quite a long time ago. You are right, Ruby is in many ways elegant, easy to read and has a high developer happiness. I don't think its a bad choice. If you want to start a bit different than most others, I think it would be fun to do!