Ruby

 3. Ruby

Ruby is an open-source object-oriented scripting language invented in the mid-90s by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Unlike languages such as C and C++, a scripting language doesn’t talk directly to hardware. It’s written to a text file and then parsed by an interpreter and turned into code. These programs are generally procedural in nature, meaning they are read from top to bottom.

Object-oriented languages, on the other hand, break out pieces of code into objects that can be created and used as needed. You can reuse these objects in other parts of the program, or even other applications.

Yukihiro wanted to create a scripting language that leveraged object-oriented programming and increase code reuse to help speed up development. And so the Ruby programming language was born, using simple language and syntax to handle data and logic to solve problems.

The Ruby programming language is a highly portable general-purpose language that serves many purposes. Ruby is great for building desktop applications, static websites, data processing services, and even automation tools. It’s used for web servers, DevOps, and web scraping and crawling. And when you add in the functionality of the Rails application framework, you can do even more, especially database-driven web applications.

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