Ruby

Based on 44905 responses from 4249 people, we've built up the following picture of Ruby

Most similar to

  1. Python
  2. Groovy
  3. Clojure
  4. Smalltalk
  5. Io

Most dissimilar from

  1. Fortran
  2. C
  3. Assembler
  4. C++
  5. Cobol

All statements

  1. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  2. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  3. I would use this language for casual scripting
  4. This language excels at text processing
  5. I find this language easy to prototype in
  6. I would use this language for a web project
  7. This language is very flexible
  8. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  9. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  10. This language is best for very small projects
  11. This language is expressive
  12. Code written in this language is very readable
  13. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  14. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  15. This is a high level language
  16. This language is good for beginners
  17. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  18. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  19. I find code written in this language very elegant
  20. I enjoy using this language
  21. This language has a good community
  22. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  23. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  24. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  25. I usually use this language on solo projects
  26. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  27. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  28. This language has a very dogmatic community
  29. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  30. I use this language out of choice
  31. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  32. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  33. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  34. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  35. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  36. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  37. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  38. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  39. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  40. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  41. I regularly use this language
  42. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  43. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  44. I would list this language on my resume
  45. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  46. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  47. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  48. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  49. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  50. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  51. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  52. I would use this language for writing server programs
  53. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  54. This language is large
  55. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  56. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  57. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  58. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  59. This language has a niche in which it is great
  60. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  61. I know many other people who use this language
  62. I know this language well
  63. There are many good tools for this language
  64. This language is best for very large projects
  65. This language has a very coherent design
  66. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  67. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  68. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  69. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  70. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  71. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  72. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  73. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  74. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  75. I would use this language for mobile applications
  76. This language is good for distributed computing
  77. This is a mainstream language
  78. This language is well documented
  79. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  80. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  81. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  82. I use many applications written in this language
  83. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  84. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  85. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  86. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  87. This language is minimal
  88. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  89. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  90. This language has an annoying syntax
  91. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  92. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  93. This language excels at concurrency
  94. This language is good for scientific computing
  95. This language is good for numeric computing
  96. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  97. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  98. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  99. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  100. This language has a high quality implementation
  101. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  102. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  103. I would use this language for writing embedded programs
  104. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  105. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  106. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  107. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  108. This is a low level language
  109. This language has a strong static type system
  110. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  111. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient