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You pretty much only see people coding Ruby while using the Rails framework which governs the whole thing. You can replace Ruby here with Python, Django or Groo
by chr15 15y ago
You pretty much only see people coding Ruby while using the Rails framework which governs the whole thing.
You can replace Ruby here with Python, Django or Groovy and it is still correct.
This is certainly not the case with Python. Python has a huge community outside of Django and is used in the scientific, academic, and financial communities (see NumPy, NLTK, Bazaar).
In other words, if you eliminated the Django community there would still be a large Python community.
- StuffMaster 15y agoPerhaps he's never heard of Google or Red Hat or science. Maybe he should google Google on...google.
- Locke1689 15y agoHmm... aside from the SketchUp scripts, I don't remember a whole lot of Google projects written in Ruby. Do you have a source for that?
- Fluxx 15y agoAs does Ruby. Rails certainly is the biggest and most famous Ruby project, but there are tons of other great projects in Ruby.
- bascule 15y agoPlease don't take what Cringely has to say as an accurate barometer of the Ruby community. While I'll freely admit that Rails (and web applications in general) is an enormous part of what people are using Ruby for, it's used for many non-web things as well (although perhaps not to the same degree as Python) Ever seen one of those satellite maps of the US at night that NOAA produces? That was made with Ruby. Just another off-the-cuff example: JRuby powers the HBase console.