KevinMul's comments

I'm one of the maintainers of the project, I think that Ruby is still a good language for beginners to learn programming.

Ruby has very expressive syntax, allowing beginners to focus more on the core programming concepts. Its object model also makes it a nice language to learn the basics and best practices of OOP.

The resources out there for beginner programmers and Ruby are also top notch and the community is very friendly to beginners.

This is completely anecdotal, but we've had a fairly decent number of students come into the chat rooms telling us they started with javascript as a beginner but weren't getting it, ruby was much easier for them to get up to grips with.

I admit that I've seen a few students put off with the magic in Ruby, but those really have been a very small minority of students compared to those who really embraced learning it.

In saying all this, we have plans to focus more of our efforts on Javascript and give students the option to choose a javascript track in the curriculum.

Hey,I'm one of the maintainers of the project and can ensure you its very much alive :)

Erik the original creator of The Odin Project, has moved on to focus on Viking. But theres a bunch of us working on improving the project.

Hey, one of the maintainers of the project here. The website was hastily threw together a few years back to host the curriculum. Its never been that great. We are working hard on rectifying that with a complete redesign though https://staging-odin-project.herokuapp.com/