Because tradition. Most of the major ruby version are released on christmas day.
I didn't know that. TIL. :-)
And it actually comes from perl, which used to announce their next big release on christmas. but it never came, and they claimed they never said which christmas, just one eventually.
Because ruby was one of the gifts given to the new born king, baby Jesus.
Not completely sure why I was downvoted, but I'm sorry for any offense I might have (accidentally) caused
Unlike Reddit, jokes are generally not we received on Hacker News. The community prefers relevant, on-point discussion to keep a high signal to noise ratio. This isn't to say some jokes aren't tolerated, but it's best to shy away from them unless you have something really great to add.
We should be able to crack a smile in response to light-hearted comments like that at Christmas :)
See, this is probably why I don't get many upvotes. Joking is pretty much my default response to everything