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<h1>10 Good Things about Ruby</h1>
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<li>It’s free and open source.</li>
<li>It’s high-level, no need to worry about memory allocation or similar.</li>
<li>It’s fully cross platform, or at least most of its <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/implementations.html#implementations">implementations</a> are.</li>
<li>It’s elegant. Really, Ruby <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/syntax.html#syntax">syntax</a> is truly beautiful, with no semicolons or braces, generally.</li>
<li>It has a large <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/core-stdlib.html#core-stdlib">core and Standard Library</a>.</li>
<li>It has over 1300 user-contributed <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/gems.html#gems">libraries</a> for almost anything you can think of.</li>
<li>It is multi-paradigm and offers many advanced language <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/features.html#features">features</a>.</li>
<li>It has a friendly and supportive community and plenty of useful <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/resources.html#resources">resources</a>.</li>
<li>There are loads of <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/web-sites.html#websites">web sites</a> about it and free online learning material.</li>
<li>A lot of <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/books.html#books">books</a> have been written about it.</li>
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