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As a Rails Dev, why does Python score so high? Is Django or scraping that important? I know Python can be used in practically anything, but what do you keep se

As a Rails Dev, why does Python score so high? Is Django or scraping that important? I know Python can be used in practically anything, but what do you keep seeing companies ask for that is a recurring need with Python?

JesseAldridge 8y ago
Data science probably.
Vinnl 8y ago
Probably data science.
syndacks 8y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head, "Python can be used in practically anything." Our Data Scientist was able to pickup Django pretty quickly because of his experience with Python. And yea, actually someone at my company who was doing a bit of scraping on the side was able to pick up Django pretty easily as well. And last night, I chatted with my buddy who works at a big tech company and they use Python for database intrusion analysis. I don't know the Ruby ecosystem very well, but it seems the biggest application of Ruby is Rails. I'm curious to hear what other ways people use Ruby, so please share.
- csdreamer7 8y ago
  Well I use Ruby also for Chef. I use it to keep my servers perfectly perfect documented and tested in code. Since I am a solo founder I can stay away for weeks from the actual configuration. When I forget something or something breaks I look at my Chef recipe. It takes a little longer to get setup I also use Chef to setup my local environment which is wonderful. When you are learning how to really dig deep into your text editor and writing your own custom snippets (and commands, and keybindings) for react. You don't how important it is to have your local env, your dotfiles and atom config automated and can be synced up with a single command no matter what computer you are on. This, with private git repos and syncthing is a wonderful thing.
- csdreamer7 8y ago
  Would you go into more detail with using Python for db intrusion analysis?
Matthias247 8y ago
I think Python is in most places a secondary thing. Lots of places have their primary code in something else, but some testing or infrastructure things in Python. Therefore it's listed in the advertisements.

JesseAldridge 8y ago

Data science probably.

Vinnl 8y ago

Probably data science.

syndacks 8y ago

I think you hit the nail on the head, "Python can be used in practically anything." Our Data Scientist was able to pickup Django pretty quickly because of his experience with Python. And yea, actually someone at my company who was doing a bit of scraping on the side was able to pick up Django pretty easily as well. And last night, I chatted with my buddy who works at a big tech company and they use Python for database intrusion analysis. I don't know the Ruby ecosystem very well, but it seems the biggest application of Ruby is Rails. I'm curious to hear what other ways people use Ruby, so please share.

csdreamer7 8y ago
Well I use Ruby also for Chef. I use it to keep my servers perfectly perfect documented and tested in code. Since I am a solo founder I can stay away for weeks from the actual configuration. When I forget something or something breaks I look at my Chef recipe. It takes a little longer to get setup I also use Chef to setup my local environment which is wonderful. When you are learning how to really dig deep into your text editor and writing your own custom snippets (and commands, and keybindings) for react. You don't how important it is to have your local env, your dotfiles and atom config automated and can be synced up with a single command no matter what computer you are on. This, with private git repos and syncthing is a wonderful thing.
csdreamer7 8y ago
Would you go into more detail with using Python for db intrusion analysis?

Matthias247 8y ago

I think Python is in most places a secondary thing. Lots of places have their primary code in something else, but some testing or infrastructure things in Python. Therefore it's listed in the advertisements.