Ruby 2.0.0 Released

This is pretty exciting. Might be too early to tell, but it feels like the Ruby versioning recently has been done very right. The switch from 1.8.x to 1.9.x was slightly painful, but I think 80% of Rubyists have made the jump.

I'm hopeful and expecting the switch to 2.0 by 80% of Rubyists in 2013.

Compared to the adoption of major version releases by Python/Java/C#/PHP, I think that's something the Ruby core release team can be proud of.

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Post by charlieok » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 9:23 AM UTC

2.0 on the 20th. Happy 20th!

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Post by irmbrady » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 9:28 AM UTC

charlieok wrote: post #6

2.0 on the 20th. Happy 20th!

Ruby is now also 20 years old. https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/305334327938519040

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Post by oleganza » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 9:37 AM UTC

I guess, Rubinius is no longer relevant? I remember it was a very promising project back in 2008.

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Post by AlexanderDhoore » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 9:40 AM UTC

Anyone have any thoughts on why python and ruby are so similar, yet so far apart? They are obviously very close, because people switch between them all the time. And they are compared on everything (languages features, libraries, tooling...). I think it's a healthy competitive environment.

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Post by tferris » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 9:42 AM UTC

Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth:

Why people still use Ruby?

1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems

2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone

3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times

And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby.