A lot of it is a matter of personal preference, and a lot comes down to whether you prefer Python or Ruby.
Python is more general purpose than Ruby, and a lot more general purpose than PHP, so it is much more likely to be useful outside web apps, or if you need unusual functionality within a web app - python has a huge range of libraries available. On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2:52:07 AM UTC+5:30, Rotimi Ajayi-Dopemu wrote: > > Hi all, > I am sure this question has been beaten into the ground but hopefully I > can get some specific insight so I don't waste time in the future. Thanks > in advance. > > The question: > I have a year to learn a new programming language for web application > development. I will be learning concurrently with going to school so I have > about 10 hrs a week give or take. So the question is this should I learn > Ruby on Rails or Python/Django??? > > Background Info about why: > I am a student studying Cognitive Science and want to work as either a UX > designer or a Full Stack Engineer, I am leaning towards Full Stack > Engineering and designing more for the front end in my after hours. I don't > have a serious girlfriend (lol) and my life is pretty simple so I know this > is what I want to do. I am committed. I know PHP fairly well and can use > Wordpress and Joomla for whatever. I am familiar with MVC through use of a > popular PHP framework called Codeigniter. Oh yeah, I used C++ pretty > heavily about 10 years ago building Windows Applications...and loved it. > > What I will be using it for: > After I graduate in a year and after learning the language I decide on I > plan to develop a full blown web application. I don't know if this is too > ambitious but all I'm willing to say now is it is like Pintrest but not a > clone. I have fully developed the concept for a long time now and will have > the features down pat by then. My goal is to invest my time on a prototype > and release it, then hopefully get with a team or even investors if it > works and develop it more. If it doesn't work out then Plan B is to use my > skill-set in a full time position with a company in a tech hub somewhere in > the US. Plan B might turn into Plan A in a year depending on my money > situation. > > So there are three aspects to this question: Should I learn Django/Python > or Ruby on Rails? is Plan A(the web app) feasible with just me and > Django/Python? How does Python fair in the work market? > > I know all this may seem like a lot to ask but this is really just a test > of this forums activity. I have been pretty avid on staying with PHP or > maybe going back to C++ because this HTML/CSS situation I usually work with > these days tends to get on my nerves. > > Last thing to add for this thread (I swear) is: one thing that really irks > me about web development is the lack of real debugging tools that work > flawlessly. Maybe it is just I haven't learned them yet but I know in PHP > you are stuck with using Xdebug through your browser (although I just found > a new debugger that only works in recent versions of PHP) so if anyone > could just give a 1+ to integrated debugging with Python Django that would > be great. > > Thanks again if you read this far. > Feel free to contact me if you have a similar web application in the > works, I have no doubt there probably is. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/ec08c90a-e9ce-4c71-9f12-02b4484aefb9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
