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> The colour. Yea why the heck did they pick green? I get red can look like errors but I’m certain there’s a cheerful ruby red out there that would have worked

> The colour. Yea why the heck did they pick green? I get red can look like errors but I’m certain there’s a cheerful ruby red out there that would have worked as an accent color for Ruby’s documentation. Green just feels so wrong to me for Ruby.

thiht 2y ago
The ruby-lang website[1] uses red accents and looks gorgeous (to me at least). I wonder why they didn't just use the same colors. [1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/
- EasyMark 2y ago
  https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ for the english version
airstrike 2y ago
Everyone knows Python is green and Ruby is red...
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > Everyone knows Python is green ...why?
  - TehCorwiz 2y ago
    Sssssomething about the namesssss.
    - thaumasiotes 2y ago
      And that would be...? Pythons aren't green. It's like saying everyone knows Perl is blue, because it's represented by a camel. Here's the least reality-informed, most popularly well-known image of a python you can find: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/a1/Kaa_Official.png/revision/latest?cb=20180301004815 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/a1/Kaa_O...
      - airstrike 2y ago
        Ask a kid to draw a snake and which colored pencil will they reach out to 9 out of 10 times? Or just look at the snake emoji...
      - EasyMark 2y ago
        https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-tree-python https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-tree-python
- yunwal 2y ago
  Python has always been blue and yellow
  - airstrike 2y ago
    I meant it more "if anyone's green, then it's Python, not Ruby". I still associate Python with green because of the typical cartoon color of snakes + Django
  - i80and 2y ago
    I had to dig into this, because I also felt Python is green. The Python logo has been blue/yellow in the modern era and monochromatic prior, but the Python IDLE icon DID used to be green[1]. Which in practice probably cemented into my brain very early on, since I learned Python with IDLE! [1]: https://github.com/certik/python-2.7/blob/master/Lib/idlelib/Icons/python.gif https://github.com/certik/python-2.7/blob/master/Lib/idlelib...
    - trescenzi 2y ago
      Wow I haven’t seen that logo in so long. Love it, thanks for the reminder.
  - dchest 2y ago
    Python 2 docs used to be greenish https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/modules.html#intra-package-references https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/modules.html#intra-pack...
zarzavat 2y ago
It’s some kind of Mandela/Berenstain effect because the old one is also slightly green but I don’t remember Ruby’s documentation ever being green and apparently nobody else did either.
trueismywork 2y ago
Green calms me down. As someone who gets extremely angry at the Ruby code I have to maintain, green is good.
amomchilov 2y ago
It's a temporary and incremental improvement over the previous stylesheet, which was also green (for reasons still unknown): https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/String.html https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/String.html The goal was to move in the right direction, but make it similar enough that it would get quick approval without rocking the boat much (yet).

thiht 2y ago

The ruby-lang website[1] uses red accents and looks gorgeous (to me at least). I wonder why they didn't just use the same colors. [1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/

EasyMark 2y ago
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ for the english version

airstrike 2y ago

Everyone knows Python is green and Ruby is red...

thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Everyone knows Python is green ...why?
- TehCorwiz 2y ago
  Sssssomething about the namesssss.
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    And that would be...? Pythons aren't green. It's like saying everyone knows Perl is blue, because it's represented by a camel. Here's the least reality-informed, most popularly well-known image of a python you can find: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/a1/Kaa_Official.png/revision/latest?cb=20180301004815 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/a1/Kaa_O...
    - airstrike 2y ago
      Ask a kid to draw a snake and which colored pencil will they reach out to 9 out of 10 times? Or just look at the snake emoji...
    - EasyMark 2y ago
      https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-tree-python https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-tree-python
yunwal 2y ago
Python has always been blue and yellow
- airstrike 2y ago
  I meant it more "if anyone's green, then it's Python, not Ruby". I still associate Python with green because of the typical cartoon color of snakes + Django
- i80and 2y ago
  I had to dig into this, because I also felt Python is green. The Python logo has been blue/yellow in the modern era and monochromatic prior, but the Python IDLE icon DID used to be green[1]. Which in practice probably cemented into my brain very early on, since I learned Python with IDLE! [1]: https://github.com/certik/python-2.7/blob/master/Lib/idlelib/Icons/python.gif https://github.com/certik/python-2.7/blob/master/Lib/idlelib...
  - trescenzi 2y ago
    Wow I haven’t seen that logo in so long. Love it, thanks for the reminder.
- dchest 2y ago
  Python 2 docs used to be greenish https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/modules.html#intra-package-references https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/modules.html#intra-pack...

zarzavat 2y ago

It’s some kind of Mandela/Berenstain effect because the old one is also slightly green but I don’t remember Ruby’s documentation ever being green and apparently nobody else did either.

trueismywork 2y ago

Green calms me down. As someone who gets extremely angry at the Ruby code I have to maintain, green is good.

amomchilov 2y ago

It's a temporary and incremental improvement over the previous stylesheet, which was also green (for reasons still unknown): https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/String.html https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/String.html The goal was to move in the right direction, but make it similar enough that it would get quick approval without rocking the boat much (yet).