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+ The Ruby language is 21 years old. Its strong community and adoption by
+ the open source community has kept this language steady and improving.
+ Ruby has changed drastically over the years. It has grown from a young
+ child to the strong adult that it is today. But it didn’t get that way
+ overnight. Let’s take a look at the life of the Ruby programming
+ language.
+
+ Note: This article is packed with metaphors (language to human), so be
+ prepared.
+
+Birth (1993)
+
+ Ruby was born in 1993, conceieved in a discussion between Yukihiro
+ Matsumoto (“Matz”) and a colleague. They were discussing the
+ possibility of an object-oriented scripting-language. Matz stated in
+ [39]ruby-talk:00382 that he knew Perl, but did not like it very much;
+ that it had the smell of a “toy” language. He also discussed that he
+ knew Python, but didn’t like it because it wasn’t a true
+ object-oriented programming language.
+
+ Matz wanted a language perfect for his needs:
+ * Syntactically Simple
+ * Truly Object-Oriented
+ * Having Iterators and Closures
+ * Exception Handling
+ * Garbage Collection
+ * Portable
+
+ Having looked around and not found a language suited for him, Yukihiro
+ Matsumoto decided to create his own. After spending several months
+ writing an interpreter, Matz finally published the first public version
+ of Ruby (0.95) to various Japanese domestic newsgroups in December,
+ 1995. You can still download the infant version of Ruby [40]here at
+ your own risk.
+
+Toddler Years
+
+ Ruby became a toddler (n.: a young child who is just beginning to walk)
+ when Ruby 1.0 was released in December, 1996. Ruby 1.1 shortly followed
+ in August of 1997, and the first stable version of Ruby (1.2) was
+ released in December of 1998.
+
+ At this point in time, Ruby was localized to Japan only, but it would
+ soon spread to other parts of the world…
+
+Primary School Years
+
+ In 1998, Matz created a simple English homepage for Ruby. However, Ruby
+ was still very localized to Japan. In trying to further this expansion,
+ the first English language Ruby mailing list, [41]Ruby-Talk, was
+ created. Ruby was beginning to spread beyond Japan.
+
+ Ruby-Talk is still very active today, and you can subscribe to it
+ [42]here.
+
+ In October of 1999, Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka wrote the
+ first book on the Ruby programming language: The Object-oriented
+ Scripting Language Ruby. Ruby was beginning to get very popular in
+ Japan, and spreading rapidly to English-speaking countries.
+
+ In 2001, the first English book on Ruby, Programming Ruby (“The
+ Pickaxe”), was published in 2001. With this new information on Ruby,
+ many more people were able to learn the language.
+
+ Ruby 1.8 was released in 2003. This release made large amounts of
+ changes to the agile 10-year-old language. Including:
+ * Duck Typing (looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a
+ duck: it’s a duck)
+ * Fully Qualified Names (Foo::Bar)
+ * Native YAML Support
+ * WEBrick
+ * StringIO
+ * open-uri
+ * PP (Pretty Printer for Hash#inspect)
+ * ruby -run (UNIX commands for all! ruby -run -e mkdir foo)
+ * And many other minor features
+
+ In 2004, RubyGems was released to the public. Good things started
+ happening next…
+
+The Rebellious Teenager
+
+ In 2005, Ruby use took off. The reason: Ruby on Rails. This new
+ framework changed the history of rapid web development. Ruby had been
+ used in the past to write CGI scripts, but Ruby on Rails took this a
+ step further. Rails has a Model-View-Controller structure that focuses
+ on “convention over configuration”, which is great for developing web
+ applications.
+
+ People loved it. So much so that, the Ruby community was almost taken
+ over by the Rails framework. Ruby in turn became very popular.
+
+ In March of 2007, Ruby 1.8.6 was released, with 1.8.7 following in May
+ of 2008. At this point, Ruby was at its peak. Mac OS X even began
+ shipping with it in 2007. At this point, Ruby was 15 years old.
+
+ Ruby 1.9 (development version) was released in December, 2007, then
+ stabilized 4 years later (2011) as Ruby 1.9.3. Ruby 1.9.3 was the
+ production version of 1.9.2. These versions brought new changes to the
+ language, such as:
+ * Significant speed improvements
+ * New methods
+ * New hash syntax ({ foo: 'bar' })
+ * RubyGems included
+ * New Socket API (IPv6 support)
+ * Several random number generators
+ * Regular Expression improvements
+ * File loading performance improvements
+ * Test::Unit Improvements
+ * New encoding support
+ * More string formatting tweaks
+ * And so much more
+
+ Ruby was making the transition from a rebellious teenager to a strong
+ adult as it turned 18 with Ruby 1.9.3.
+
+Strong Adult
+
+ Ruby 2.0.0 was released in February 2013 and brought many stabilizing
+ changes to the language. Among them are:
+ * More speed improvements
+ * Refinements (safe monkey patching)
+ * Keyword arguments
+ * UTF-8 by default
+ * New regular expressions engine
+ * Optimized garbage collection
+ * The addition of built-in syntax documentation (ri ruby:syntax)
+
+ Unlike 1.9.x, which broke numerous gems with its changes, 2.0.0 was
+ almost completely backwards compatible with 1.9.3. In addition, Heroku,
+ one of the leading Ruby/Rails hosts upgraded to 2.0.0 quickly, causing
+ earlier than usual adoption by new and existing projects. The Ruby
+ language was (and is) in its golden age.
+
+ Ruby 2.1.0 was released on Christmas day of 2013. It brought several
+ minor changes to the language. But the biggest news of 2.1.0 was
+ [43]semantic versioning, a way to properly version a project without
+ breaking dependencies by accident.
+
+ Ruby 2.1.1 was released on Ruby’s 21st birthday (February 24, 2014).
+ Ruby is now legally allowed to drink in the US (not that we’d want it
+ to). This version was mainly speed improvements and bugfixes. Shortly
+ after 2.1.1, Ruby 2.1.2 was released in May of 2014. 2.1.2 consists of
+ more bugfixes and is the current stable version of Ruby.
+
+The Future
+
+ Ruby is a great language. Matz wanted a programming language that
+ suited his needs, so he built one. This is an inspiring story of
+ software development: if you can’t find something that you like,
+ program it yourself. From 0.95 to 2.1.2, Ruby has struck the awe of
+ those who wished to program the way they wanted, not the way the
+ machine wanted.
+
+ We can’t know the future of the Ruby language, but we can predict it
+ based on the past. I believe that the Ruby language, and its fantastic
+ community will continue furthering the language above and beyond what
+ others think is possible, and projects built using it will do the same.
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