On Aug 13, 7:40 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Álvaro G. Vicario a écrit : > > > > > Hussein B escribió: > >> The sad fact (at least to me), Ruby is getting a lot of attention > >> these days. > >> Why Python isn't getting this attention although is a much more mature > >> language and it is used by many big, big names? > >> And do I dare to say it is much more charming? > > > The opinion of a PHP developer who's playing with Python as well: > > > I've come across Python almost everywhere. Many programs I use (or I've > > evaluated) are written in Python or use it for scripting: source control > > software (Subversion, Bazaar, Mercurial), IDEs (Komodo Edit), popular > > web applications (Zope, Trac)... If you're looking for a script for > > admin tasks your search results will probably contain something in > > Python. If you want to build a Firefox extension you'll find a *.py file > > sitting around. > > > 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. > > Redmine is a nice alternative to Trac. And Twitter is certainly a > well-known app too. (Yes, RoR apps in both cases...). > > > Ruby is popular among bloggers but I'm not sure whether it's popular > > among developers. > > Almost as much as Python, I'd say. But both languages fight for the same > niches in languages/techno ecosystem, and Python, being older, tend to > get more visibility.
But Twitter is suffering from sever scaling problems, I read it maybe will be reimplemented in Java ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
