[wiseowise]

Nobody cares about Ruby outside of RoR

Python is one of the Lingua Franca of scientific, data, and most importantly, ai communities

Has much bigger community than Ruby

Has much, much better tooling story

Has much better gradual typing story

Isn’t THAT much slower than Ruby, there are far more attractive targets than Ruby if you care about performance

[dismalaf]

> Python is one of the Lingua Franca of scientific, data, and most importantly, ai communities

You mean it's the most used frontend for all the C and C++ libraries that are used for scientific computing, data and AI.

[wiseowise]

Semantics.

[dismalaf]

Literally all those libraries are usable with Ruby. Libtorch, BLAS, LAPACK, Tensorflow, etc...

[wiseowise]

And with Java, and with Go, and with Rust, and with pretty much any language offering some form of FFI. But they're used with Python, and good luck convincing your interviewer that it should be used with Ruby.

[dismalaf]

> convincing your interviewer

Some of us don't work for others and just program what we want.

[wmoxam]

I found scrooge.

Bah, humbug!