Fun fact: Matz was a lisper prior to creating ruby. He even wrote an email client entirely in Emacs lisp.
Not wrong that ruby took a lot from perl, but it was heavily influenced by lisp and smalltalk and I'd personally argue those are the two largest influences.
It does seem that ruby was specifically designed to grab Perl programmers though. Several features match exactly.
Literally everything you're asking for is in that link. The author has the opinion that you don't need fancy IDE features which is an arguable point but they do list what editors for each OS work in their experience.
I first leaned lisp in college (1964) and have not touched it much since then. But now that I am retired I am going to give it a shot. What extensions in vscode should I use? I installed steel bank and quicklisp. Thanks,
Not wrong that ruby took a lot from perl, but it was heavily influenced by lisp and smalltalk and I'd personally argue those are the two largest influences.
It does seem that ruby was specifically designed to grab Perl programmers though. Several features match exactly.