我们知道 Rubyist 是有严格限定的，不是随便一个用 Ruby 的都可以称 Rubyist 的。 Clojure 的 Clojurist 就没有什么讲究，一个初学者都是 Clojurist 了。 有-ist 叫法的其他语言，还有没有比较讲究的？
Noun Rubyist (plural Rubyists)
A user of the Ruby programming language.
2007, Topher Cyll, Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer (page 2) Why do Rubyists choose Ruby? Probably because it gets their work done. But I suspect that the project culture is part of it. 2011, Matt Aimonetti, MacRuby: The Definitive Guide: Ruby and Cocoa on OS X (page 14) By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names.
By matz:
A rubyist regards him/herself more than a customer to Ruby. For example:
recommending Ruby to colleagues,
editing FAQs of Ruby,
opening a BBS on Ruby,
writing a Ruby book,
mailing to the author of Ruby to encourage,
the author of Ruby ^^;;;
On the other hand, let's call those who show high technical level on Ruby as Ruby hackers. For example:
writing an extension module of Ruby,
writing patches to fix Ruby bugs,
writing Ruby transports to djgpp or win32,
writing a useful (and considerably large) program in Ruby,
writing an obfuscated script in Ruby,
the author of Ruby ^^;;;
看来没有人把 matz 的话当回事呀:)
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/189107/when-can-one-call-themselves-a-rubyist 里面最后一位仁兄跟我的理解是一样的 I don't think "Rubyist" is a synonym for "Ruby programmer".
#5 楼 @blacktulip 这个投票太少也不能说明什么，当然现在也可能认同他的占大多数了 若干年前不是现在这样的，分清楚的人还是多一些，认为 Rubyist 应该是社区中人，为社区出力的 当然语言这个东西，得大家认同才行，如果所有人都认为 Rubyist=Ruby programmer，你反对也是没用