Ruby
Software
Building Shopify's core platform; writing readable, expressive code that communicates intent to both humans and machines
"We built a lot of Shopify in Ruby, which is famous for its poetry mode. Poetry mode means you can write Ruby that's essentially English. You can read some really really well-built Ruby code as if it's telling you a story about what the system is actually li..."
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Building web applications; foundation for Ruby on Rails
"When I first picked up Ruby back in the early 2000s, it was an obscure programming language out of Japan that only a handful of people in the West were using. And I went, 'This is incredible. This guy has the right vision for what a programming language sho..."
"Ruby is designed to make the programmer feel good. I've now spent well over 20 years just absolutely loving the Ruby programming language."