I just moved to another company that's mainly a Java/.NET shop. I was happy to find out that there's a movement from the grassroot to try to convince the boss to use a dynamic language for our development!
Two of the senior developers, however, are already rooting for Ruby on Rails--although they haven't tried RoR themselves. When I suggested Django, they went like, "what's that?". I said, "It's like the Python counterpart of RoR". "Nah, we're not interested in Python." I think they are already predisposed to RoR simply because of RoR's visibility (i.e.: at my workplace everybody knows RoR but nobody knows about Django unless they've used Python as well). So far the arguments I can think of: 1. The investment of learning Python will be a good investment because it transfer to platforms that we've already supported, i.e.: JVM and .NET CLR (using Jython and IronPython). Ruby's availability on this platform is not as mature--JRuby is still at 0.9 and I don't think IronRuby is coming out anytime soon :) 2. Python is a much more mature language than Ruby--it's been around since ages ago and as such has a lot more tools, articles, and other resources than Ruby. It is also the language being used by high-visibility company like Google, with the creator of the language himself working there. 3. Python emphasizes readability instead of cleverness/conciseness. 4. What else? I haven't tried RoR so I can't argue meaningfully on whether using Django will put us at an advantage. Can you help me with my argument? Meanwhile I think I'll give RoR a try as well. Thank you, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
