Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN. As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yukihiro Matsumoto has received more than 622,577 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Yukihiro Matsumoto is the 108th most popular computer scientist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 1,144th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,090th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.