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Ask HN: Why Ruby not preinstalled in GNU/Linux distribution?

1 points| merbot | 6 years ago | reply

I was learning ruby recently. When installing ruby via its version manager, I realized that Python or Perl usually preinstalled in GNU/Linux distribution. Why ruby not preinstalled in GNU/Linux distribution?

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[+] tachyons|6 years ago|reply
Because many of the default CLI and GUI tools in Gnu/Linux are written in Python. So including Python interpreter is necessary.