Maxim Shkurygin wrote: >>From what I've read both frameworks are awesome and have more simularities > than differences, - I am sure both camps will agree. What it comes down to > is the choice of language, Ruby vs Python. > > Ruby is very elegantly designed language, that is currently gaining > popularity in the mainstream. It's designed to make programmers lazy by > making the most common programming tasks easy to implement. However what I > found I is that I it's currently lacking in mainstream libriaries - I had > write SWIG wrappers for stuff I used to take for granted in Python. Rails is > Ruby's killer app, - and if you want to learn Ruby, rails the way to do it. > But other than rails I don't know of any other popular projects behind it. > > Python, on the other hand is used literally everywhere, Django just being > one of it's many niches.
Quick, language fight! Seriously, views of language penetration and
support for things tend to be very localized on what communities you are
embedded in.
I'd suggest that we don't let the thread degrade into language flame
war, at least not yet. ;)
-Sean
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There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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