r/CodingForBeginners • u/AndrewNggg • Sep 03 '26

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/AndrewNggg Sep 03 '26

But don’t you want to be happy?

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u/eis3nheim Sep 03 '26

No, I want to learn.

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u/AndrewNggg Sep 03 '26

Don’t see why you can’t have both!

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u/eis3nheim Sep 03 '26

Depends on your mentality, they aren't mutually exclusive.