Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed
and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.Ruby is dynamically
typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. It supports multiple
programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming.
According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC,
and Lisp.
Ruby
Ruby product description
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed
and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.Ruby is dynamically
typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. It supports multiple
programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming.
According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC,
and Lisp.
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Ruby properties & statistics
Product
Ruby
Vendor
Ruby Community
Latest version
3.4.3
Number of releases
14
Number of versions
158
Number of unstable versions
48
Number of versions affected by CVE
72
Licence
Ruby License
Licence details
Last verification date
2025-04-23
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