RubyA dynamic language emphasizing developer happiness — Rails made it the default for web startups in the 2000s.'s expressiveness influenced Rails, ElixirA language on the Erlang VM with Ruby-like syntax — popular for Phoenix web apps and real-time systems., and modern scripting language design. Matz built a global community from Japan that proved language innovation need not come from Silicon Valley.

RubyA dynamic language emphasizing developer happiness — Rails made it the default for web startups in the 2000s. 1.0 marked Matz's language graduating from personal project to production use.

It brought an object-oriented scripting alternative to PerlPractical Extraction and Report Language — a scripting language that dominated early web CGI and sysadmin. and PythonA high-level language known for readability — dominant in data science, scripting, and web backends. with a distinct philosophy.