On Dec 22, 10:13 am, r <rt8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since the > advent of Ruby(Python closet competitor), Python's hold on this niche > is slipping.
About the only place I ever hear of ruby being used is web development with RoR. When it comes to web development, it seems to me that ruby (because of rails) is far more popular than python. It seems to me that ruby is the niche player, and python (with fairly new frameworks) is trying to catch up to ruby in that niche. It seems to me that the python web framework that best competes with rails, is Django, and Django 1.0 just came out a few months back. > A lot of Ruby noobies don't even realize that most of > Ruby is an out-right plagiarism of Python. Maybe. But the rails framework seems to have a different philosophy than the django, turbogears, or pylons, frameworks. RoR values convention over configuration, and has a lot of "magic" whereas the python frameworks seem to have the opposite philosophy - in those regards. I see pros and cons to both approaches. I wonder what the market with think? > Now since Python *is not* the only language on it's block, we have to > compete with our main nemesis(Ruby) for survival I think both python and ruby will "survive." I think python is also competing with perl in the sysadmin space - although I see perl as being much more popular there. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
