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

1 points by merbot 6y ago ↗ HN

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 6y ago ↗

Because many of the default CLI and GUI tools in Gnu/Linux are written in Python. So including Python interpreter is necessary.