November 01, 2005

Ruby vs. Python : Community friendliness?

Ruby and Python are two fairly evenly matched languages in their technical capacity. But Ruby is getting a lot of people excited, while Python (sniff) is lagging behind. This is partly to do with Ruby on Rails, a very easy-to-use and pretty, web-application platform. Python's equivalent major web-platform, Zope, was lauded as powerful, but is pretty heavy and bureacratic.

But might the personalities of the communities also play a role? MF Bliki: RubyPeople

5 comments:

Composing said...

Interview with Bruce Tate comparing Ruby favourably with Java for development. But he describes PHP as "quick and dirty" :-(

Composing said...

That link got a br on the end of it.

This should work

-- the real PhilJones

Composing said...

thanks for the link, thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Andrew Stevenson said...

Well, I have been a Dedicated PHP Programmers for 4 years. It took me 1 day to learn and write a 200 lines multi-threaded script. It is easy to learn, debug and maintain.

Composing said...

Yeah. Andrew Stevenson. I agree.

I have a lot of respect for PHP. It's one of those tools that gets things done without you having to think about it too much.

Would love to see someone "CoffeeScript" it with a cleaner, less verbose syntax though.