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> Where does the frustration come from with Python being more popular than Ruby Both ecosystems have produced a lot of "content" and there's certainly some thi
by tmpz22 4y ago
> Where does the frustration come from with Python being more popular than Ruby
Both ecosystems have produced a lot of "content" and there's certainly some things Ruby got better. But because Python has won more marketshare the ceiling of those ruby tools feels lower.
Now the reasons python won aren't hard to find:
* data science / machine learning dominance
* closer to Java/C++ gives it a huge edge in academia as a beginner language
* Python is bigger then the sum of its parts where as people see Ruby as a dependency of Rails (only half joking)
* ...