Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese programmer who created the Ruby programming language
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Yukihiro Matsumoto, known as “Matz”, is a Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language, released in 1995. Ruby was designed to make programmers happy, and the Ruby on Rails framework made it popular for web development worldwide.
Biography
Background
Matsumoto grew up in Tottori Prefecture, taught himself programming and studied information science at the University of Tsukuba.
Ruby
Wanting a scripting language more object-oriented than Perl and easier than Python, he began Ruby in 1993 and released it in 1995, naming it after the birthstone of a colleague. He blended ideas from Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp and Eiffel.
Global spread
Ruby was first popular in Japan. After David Heinemeier Hansson released Ruby on Rails in 2004, it was used to build companies such as GitHub, Shopify and Airbnb.
Work
Matsumoto has worked for Heroku and other organisations on the Ruby interpreter (MRI) and lives in Matsue, Shimane. He received the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2011.
Timeline
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1965
Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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1993
Begins designing Ruby
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1995
Ruby released
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2003
Ruby 1.8
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2004
Ruby on Rails appears
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2011
FSF Award
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2013
Ruby 2.0
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2020
Ruby 3.0
Notable works
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1995
Ruby Programming language
Awards and honours
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FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
2011
Did you know?
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1
The Ruby community motto is “Matz is nice and so we are nice” (MINASWAN).
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2
Ruby was named to follow Perl, another gem.
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3
Matsue city promotes itself as a centre for Ruby.
Connections
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Who is Yukihiro Matsumoto?
Yukihiro Matsumoto, known as “Matz”, is a Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language, released in 1995. Ruby was designed to make programmers happy, and the Ruby on Rails framework made it popular for web development worldwide.
How old is Yukihiro Matsumoto?
Yukihiro Matsumoto is 61 years old, born on 14 April 1965 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Where is Yukihiro Matsumoto from?
Yukihiro Matsumoto was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
What is Yukihiro Matsumoto known for?
Yukihiro Matsumoto is best known for Creating Ruby (1995); MRI interpreter.
What awards has Yukihiro Matsumoto received?
Notable honours include FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (2011).
References
- Yukihiro Matsumoto — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Official website. www.rubyist.net. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto (Q92748) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
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