Python vs Ruby
Cluster focuses on debates comparing Python and Ruby programming languages, highlighting Python's versatility in AI/data science/web dev versus Ruby's niche in Rails/web development, popularity, communities, and recommendations for learning.
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Ruby is commonly used by programmers along with Ruby on Rails for Web Development so it's scope is very limited. Python on the other hand has been widely adopted by the academia and has become pretty much essential to startups in the big data/AI sector, additionally Python can also be used with Django for web development (Instagram's website is built in Django). The pip library is vast and the Django community is on par with the Ruby on Rails community. I dont see any reason to st
Ruby is only relevant because of Rails, and if those two things are your use-cases then you’ll be better off with Python
You have a week of Python. Spend 2 days with Ruby. If you fall in love with Ruby, go with Rails. Otherwise, stick to Python. It's that simple. They're basically the same thing.
Look at the forums and stuff.. They seem to speak of python as kings and ruby as a second class citizen...
Python seems to be used in a lot of contexts, not limited to web development. While Ruby is a lovely language it appears to be used primarily with Rails in a web context.
Ruby has become almost synonymous with rails, Python is used in more diverse areas.
well , like the rest already mentioned you probably want to compair Python and Ruby , in which case i would go with python
Python is a great language, Ruby is also a consideration.
I recommend checking out Ruby instead of Python.
Ruby and Python seem to be in vogue for web applications. I'm a Ruby guy because I got tired of reading through flame wars and decided to pick one of them randomly.