> Ruby also was more or less a Japanese-only thing until around 2000 And after that it still took quite a few years until "English support" really became first

> Ruby also was more or less a Japanese-only thing until around 2000 And after that it still took quite a few years until "English support" really became first-class and comparable to Python. I looked at Ruby around 2002-2003 or so (I was looking at many different languages back then, pretty much anything I could get my hands on), and lots of Ruby stuff was in Japanese or poor English. That's all fine, but I specifically remember that was the major reason I ended up not using Ruby at the time. (I did end up programming a lot of Ruby many years later, and for what it's worth I do prefer Ruby for most things now)