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Tommy Watson
Mr. Watson loves to code
Why did the Gitlab Team choose Ruby for development?
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
CTO at GitLab
GitLab started as the weekend hobby. Ruby was my favorite language back in 2011. I wanted to make something useful and practice my skills at the same time. Thanks to Ruby and Rails I was able to release the first version within a month.
Job van der Voort
VP of Product at GitLab
To add to DZ: Today we continue to use Ruby, as it allows us to iterate very quickly.
We also use Go for specific pieces in the backend and of course plenty of Javascript on the frontend.