Is Ruby any good when it comes to programming? I didn''t really hear anything about it until very recently, so I''m assuming it isn''t very popular and not widely used. I hear it''s a pure object oriented language, but I''m not sure on it''s other benefits it has when compared to other languages. Does somebody know of any other good features it has, and how good it is compared to other programming languages like VB, VC++, ASM, etc? Or perhaps what types of things are compatible with Ruby(like OpenGL, DirectX, etc)?

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Is Ruby any good when it comes to programming?

It depends.

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I didn''t really hear anything about it until very recently, so I''m assuming it isn''t very popular and not widely used.

It''s reasonably popular. Is it a problem if it''s not popular?

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I hear it''s a pure object oriented language, but I''m not sure on it''s other benefits it has when compared to other languages. Does somebody know of any other good features it has, and how good it is compared to other programming languages like VB, VC++, ASM, etc?

What''s Ruby?

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Or perhaps what types of things are compatible with Ruby(like OpenGL, DirectX, etc)?

Ruby can be extended with C APIs fairly easily. Check Ruby Garden to see what has already been done. There are also COM interop extensions with the Windows distribution, but I find them a bit cruddy.