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by mercer 3384 days ago
Without any strong feelings for or against a particular language, I suspect Ruby is hurt more by this than Python, at least in the future, on account of being more web-focused. Can people in both communities confirm or deny this (and as I said I'll happily use Ruby in many of my use cases)?

As for JS; what with TypeScript and ES6 (despite the worry of clutter) I can't help but wonder if it's the best non-choice we could have hoped for.
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mamcx 3384 days ago
I think that is a side-effect that ruby in rails was ruby in the mind of many, and python was weak at first in web (before django).

In the meantime, python get a lot of love for scientific computing and other stuff, but ruby (and others, I think no even java or .net) not and then get behind in this area.

So now, when the web side have more viable options and ruby is just one of many, the effect of web on ruby is felt more, but python have a good fallback on the rest.

Python have a more diverse portfolio of options ;)

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gspetr 3383 days ago
> I think that is a side-effect that ruby in rails was ruby in the mind of many, and python was weak at first in web (before django).

Django was actually released first.

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mamcx 3383 days ago
Yeah? Ups!

But Ruby On Rails was more popular, no?

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