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Not sure why they decided to release on Christmas eve / day, but looks good.

• raitom 10y ago
  Because tradition. Most of the major ruby version are released on christmas day.
  • nodesocket 10y ago
    I didn't know that. TIL. :-)
  • rurban 10y ago
    And it actually comes from perl, which used to announce their next big release on christmas. but it never came, and they claimed they never said which christmas, just one eventually.
• deleted 10y ago
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• anonova 10y ago
  It's defined in their (somewhat oddball) version policy: "MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible"[1] [1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/ruby-version-policy-changes-with-2-1-0/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/ruby-version-po...
• rogerthis 10y ago
  Because ruby was one of the gifts given to the new born king, baby Jesus.
  • saghm 10y ago
    It sure beats frankincense
    • dvdhnt 10y ago
      And mir. Wtf is mir?
      • iammiles 10y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh
        • joshdotsmith 10y ago
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir
          • ch_123 10y ago
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)
            • saghm 10y ago
              https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html
      • hota_mazi 10y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM&t=45s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM&t=45s
    • saghm 10y ago
      Not completely sure why I was downvoted, but I'm sorry for any offense I might have (accidentally) caused
      • echelon 10y ago
        Unlike Reddit, jokes are generally not we received on Hacker News. The community prefers relevant, on-point discussion to keep a high signal to noise ratio. This isn't to say some jokes aren't tolerated, but it's best to shy away from them unless you have something really great to add.