Ruby useful in its niches.
So is 360 Assembler to this day, and RPG, and REXX ...
They're just not growing mindshare.
Python is still growing mindshare, and it's more generally useful than
Ruby, which since 2006 has been focused on web services.
Legacy systems programmers learning Python in IBM *nix environments (IBM
i Pase & z/OS USS) is, in the immortal words of Joe Biden, a BFD :)
On 3/30/20 6:15 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-03-30 12:24 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python,
Ruby is close to dead these days, whereas Python is growing by leaps
and bounds.
That's a big call! Ruby on Rails is used by Github (and many others)!
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