I haven’t heard that in 15 years. The main reason to use Ruby is that it’s a better Python. The tooling is 10x better, it has all the same language features and more, it has easily enough packages to handle any situation you want, and it doesn’t have all the bike shedding that Python has.
You shouldn’t be writing applications in a scripting language anyway. They’re for scripting, it’s in the name.
Well I’m no fan of Python either but it doesn’t describe itself as a scripting language (and neither does Ruby) so I think you’re way off there.
And I dunno about Ruby being a better Python. It looks way worse to me. In particular the story for static type annotation seems pretty dire. The syntax is worse, it’s less popular, and even slower!
I can believe the tooling is better though. Python’s is abysmal (unless they officially adopt uv - ray of hope there but I have zero faith the Python Devs would make such an obvious decision).
Has nothing to do with Ruby and everything to do with rails. Rails is terrible.
Funny because Rails is often touted as the main reason to use Ruby!
I haven’t heard that in 15 years. The main reason to use Ruby is that it’s a better Python. The tooling is 10x better, it has all the same language features and more, it has easily enough packages to handle any situation you want, and it doesn’t have all the bike shedding that Python has.
You shouldn’t be writing applications in a scripting language anyway. They’re for scripting, it’s in the name.
Well I’m no fan of Python either but it doesn’t describe itself as a scripting language (and neither does Ruby) so I think you’re way off there.
And I dunno about Ruby being a better Python. It looks way worse to me. In particular the story for static type annotation seems pretty dire. The syntax is worse, it’s less popular, and even slower!
I can believe the tooling is better though. Python’s is abysmal (unless they officially adopt
uv- ray of hope there but I have zero faith the Python Devs would make such an obvious decision).