Because it’s a winner’s language, as it was proved in CodeBattle experiment.
They invited thousands of coders from around the world to kick each other’s asses show their best in solving the same tricky problem.
Rules were fair & simple:
To add more fuel to the battle, each participant was given a right to see the opponent’s code, chat with him and the audience…
So it happened.
Ruby won!
* games statistics is for Q4 2015, games with the similar languages were excluded
Ruby warriors succeeded in 52% of 3651 games they participated in. Fortune favors the bold.
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