{"type":"blog","id":"2024/at-30-years-old-is-ruby-in-a-mid-life-crisis-or-a-renaissance","title":"At 30 years old, is Ruby in a mid-life crisis or a renaissance?","url":"/blog/2024/at-30-years-old-is-ruby-in-a-mid-life-crisis-or-a-renaissance","summary":"Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday. It spread across Japanese-language Usenet newsgroups, a popular way of exchanging conversation and media before the World Wide Web, and then reached broader communities throughout the late 1990s.","date":"2024-11-11","tags":["Ruby","Programming"],"categories":["tech"],"externalUrl":"https://thenextweb.com/news/at-30-years-old-is-ruby-in-a-mid-life-crisis-or-a-renaissance","links":[{"label":"Publication","url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/at-30-years-old-is-ruby-in-a-mid-life-crisis-or-a-renaissance"}],"fields":{}}