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by paulddraper 3638 days ago
> About the only use-case I can think of where Ruby has a clear advantage is in creating a DSL

Yep. Chef and Puppet (machine configuration tools) are written in Ruby.
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cweagans 3638 days ago
Ansible is written in Python and they didn't have to invent a DSL to make it work ;)
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paulddraper 3637 days ago
Ansible is written in anything that generates json
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cweagans 3636 days ago
Ansible itself is written in Python, but yeah, the plugins can be written in pretty much anything.
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