You might be worried about the future prospects of the language and with so many tools out there, you want to be sure that learning Ruby is worth the effort.

We’ve compiled a list of reasons to learn Ruby from people using it every day so you can pick the one that resonates with you:

• Ruby is optimized for your happiness, with a natural syntax that reads almost like English you can write and read code more easily.
• Ruby will open up your mind by being exposed to new ideas. From meta programming to build your own DSL to using functional programming, there is a lot to discover.
• You can build a career and make money from writing code. There is a lot of legacy Ruby code out there waiting to be improved and there are multiple companies choosing it to build their products.
• Ruby devs can be hard to find in some markets and with plenty of work to go around. The less of a resource there is, the higher its price and value tend to be.
• Ruby is the language used for Rails, a full-stack web framework with all the tools needed to build web apps on both the front and back end.
• Beyond the status quo, there are emerging frameworks that bring new approaches to the ecosystem like Hanami, Yippee!, Brut RB, BridgeTown and Herb.
• RubyEvents has 660 events, 8153 talks from 3771 speakers listed so far.
• You can build your own cross-platform commercial games with DragonRuby.
• It has a lower barrier for entry and can open you the door to learn to program.
• Make an impact by supporting our non-profit organizations who serve the most marginalized communities using Ruby For Good.
• Learn how to write cost-effective, maintainable object-oriented code with 99 Bottles of OOP and Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR).