Yukihiro Matsumoto was born on April 14, 1965. He is a Japanese software programmer and computer scientist. He is also the chief designer of the Ruby programming language.
Yukihiro Matsumoto Net Worth
The net worth of Yukihiro Matsumoto is known to be around $5 million USD.
He is the creator of Ruby, a programming language. It is a combination of other programming languages which include Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp. Matsumoto’s aim is to make Ruby ‘natural’ that it mirrors life in a way.
He is also the mind behind mruby, which is an interpreter for Ruby. He also worked on Streem, a scripting language that automates the execution of tasks, and he has also been listed as an investor of Treasure Data, which is a customer data platform.
Personal Life
Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as Matz, was born on April 14, 1965, in Osaka Prefecture in the beautiful country of Japan. When he was four years old, his family moved to Tottori Prefecture, where he was raised. Tottori is a coastal prefecture in southern Honshu, Japan.
During his teens, he taught himself programming. He went to the University of Tsukuba where he graduated with a degree in information science degree. While at the university, he was also a member of Ikuo Nakata’s research lab on programming languages and compilers.
The software developer is married and has four kids. Not much information is known about his very own family.
Professional Career
Yukihiro Matsumoto released the first version of the Ruby programming language on December 21, 1995. Ruby was very well-accepted by computer enthusiasts and programmers alike.
Ruby is in the top 10 on most of the indices that measure the growth and popularity of programming languages all over the world. In addition, it is completely free. It can also be distributed, copied, and modified by users. Ruby uses limited punctuation and prefers the English language. Nonetheless, it is a programming language with great flexibility.
As of 2011, Matsumoto works at Heroku which is an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology of the Rakuten Group, Inc.
In April 2012, he created mruby, which is based on his virtual machine, called ritevm. In June 2014, He became a technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. based in Japan. In December 2014, developed a new scripting language called streem. It is influenced by Ruby, Erlang, and other functional programming languages.
Currently, Matsumoto still leads the development of Ruby’s reference implementation, MRI, or Matz’s Ruby Interpreter.
He received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Yukihiro Matsumoto Dating History
Yukihiro Matsumoto keeps his family matters private, however, it is known that he is happily married with four kids.
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