Python or Ruby ?

http://blog.cbcg.net/articles/2007/04/22/python-up-ruby-down-if-that-runtime-dont-work-then-its-bound-to-drizzown

by mhidalgo • 19 years ago

8 11 19 years ago

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dawie• 19 years ago

Rails

jamongkad3• 19 years ago

Funny thing his blog is written in Ruby hehehe but seriously it's good to see that someone is hitting a wall. Never knew it was the runtimes fault that led to issues.

damien• 19 years ago

I agree with him that Python is more useful right now as a general programming environment... mainly because it's been around longer, it's a more mature and stable platform, has better libraries in general, better performance, etc.

sabat• 19 years ago

Python is only four years older than Ruby. The rest ... YMMV.

jey• 19 years ago

Yes, but Python gained a lot more mindshare in its early years than Ruby. Ruby is only now really gaining popularity, and therefore support.

brett• 19 years ago

That's pretty interesting. I'm pretty enamored with rails but just last week I wrote a ruby script for a client to pull some stats out of apache logs and it took forever to run so I'm sympathetic to a lot of his arguments.

His mild attempt at the end to give rails its due suggests it's less black and white than he paints it. There's good reason to have both languages in your toolbox.

jamongkad3• 19 years ago

You're quite right. I love Ruby but I hate it at the same time cuz it's so damn slow! Rails included! On the on the other hand I've heard great things about JRuby. And I got all hot and bothered when I recently found out that they've already integrated JRuby with Rails!http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2007/03/05/JRuby+0.9.8+Released I hope this gives Rails a much needed performance boost.

eli• 19 years ago

Honestly? It don't matter.

There aren't really any apps that would only be possible with one or the other. If you don't know either: just pick one. (for what it's worth I like Ruby)

gyro_robo• 19 years ago

That's true of any set of Turing-complete languages.

jamongkad3• 19 years ago

I guess it boils down to personal preference and what you want to do with the language. I chose Ruby cuz of Rails....and because Ruby's syntax generally fits my mind set.

Python or Ruby ?

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