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There really isn't a huge difference between the two. For what it's worth, I personally prefer Ruby because it has better support on the Mac - Apple use ruby a

There really isn't a huge difference between the two. For what it's worth, I personally prefer Ruby because it has better support on the Mac - Apple use ruby a fair bit themselves. For example, the command line tool gen_bridge_metadata (supplied by Appleto make it possible to access system frameworks written in C from scripting languages) is itself a ruby script. I notice that on Linux it's the reverse - python seems to be the preferred scripting language. But don't take my comments as saying only ruby is supported on the Mac, or only python on Linux - in reality it's only a light preference one way or the other.

tpherndon 18y ago
The CalDAV server authored by Apple and included with OS X Server is written in Python. PyObjC receives a lot of attention from Apple employees. I don't think there's much preference exhibited by Apple one way or the other. And vice versa, there must be some Linux distros that have tools written in Ruby, right? Particularly some of the newer ones, I seem to recall hearing that their system tools were Ruby.
- evgen 18y ago
  FWIW, the wiki that Apple includes in Leopard Server is also written in Python. Apple apears to be making much more use of Python than it is of Ruby.
  - rcoder 18y ago
    Counter-counter: Podcast Producer is a Rails app. I think Apple is just letting their employees pick their tools (at least for server apps) as they see best, rather than arbitrarily enforcing the choice of a single language.
- BrandonM 18y ago
  All of Gentoo's tools are written in python, bash, or C.
- demallien 18y ago
  As I said, it's just a slight preference. But I look at things like the official Apple support for MacRuby (Apple is employing Laurent to re-implement ruby in Objective C, so that ruby objects are Objective C objects - you'll be able to program Cocoa in Ruby without having to take the performance hit of crossing a scripting bridge all of the time!), and I don't see a commensurate support of the Python world. But as I said, it's only a slight preference - Apple s evidently right behind both languages, as they make leveraging the power of OS X so simple.

tpherndon 18y ago

The CalDAV server authored by Apple and included with OS X Server is written in Python. PyObjC receives a lot of attention from Apple employees. I don't think there's much preference exhibited by Apple one way or the other. And vice versa, there must be some Linux distros that have tools written in Ruby, right? Particularly some of the newer ones, I seem to recall hearing that their system tools were Ruby.

evgen 18y ago
FWIW, the wiki that Apple includes in Leopard Server is also written in Python. Apple apears to be making much more use of Python than it is of Ruby.
- rcoder 18y ago
  Counter-counter: Podcast Producer is a Rails app. I think Apple is just letting their employees pick their tools (at least for server apps) as they see best, rather than arbitrarily enforcing the choice of a single language.
BrandonM 18y ago
All of Gentoo's tools are written in python, bash, or C.
demallien 18y ago
As I said, it's just a slight preference. But I look at things like the official Apple support for MacRuby (Apple is employing Laurent to re-implement ruby in Objective C, so that ruby objects are Objective C objects - you'll be able to program Cocoa in Ruby without having to take the performance hit of crossing a scripting bridge all of the time!), and I don't see a commensurate support of the Python world. But as I said, it's only a slight preference - Apple s evidently right behind both languages, as they make leveraging the power of OS X so simple.