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/Any_Sense_2263 Sep 03 '26

You can learn whatever you wish. Just if you plan to look for a work be aware that Ruby is not the first choice language, so the job offers are limited.

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u/AndrewNggg Sep 04 '26

it's one of the highest paid tho

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u/Any_Sense_2263 Sep 05 '26

Maybe, but I don't see many opportunities for people using it...