You advice please

Calvin Spealman ironfroggy at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 11:11:32 EDT 2008


Ruby (on Rails) people love to talk about Ruby (on Rails).

Python people are too busy getting things done to talk as loudly.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:04 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:47:58 +0200
> "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaroNOSPAMTHANKS at demogracia.com> wrote:
>> But I've never came across a Ruby app. Sure, I know Ruby exists and
>> people are very enthusiastic about it (though they often mistake it with
>> Ruby on Rails), but that's all.
>>
>> Ruby is popular among bloggers but I'm not sure whether it's popular
>> among developers.
>
> Well, I just attended the Agile 2008 conference and sadly Ruby seemed
> to be much more popular than Python.  I found people who had heard of
> Python and were thinking of trying it but developers were working in
> Java, C++ and Ruby.
>
> Of course, I didn't talk to every one of the 1500 delegates.
>
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