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Ruby was the prettier and more consistent language that was slow, prone to weird regressions, and a huge pain-in-the-ass to put into production compared to Pyth
by alrs 4y ago
Ruby was the prettier and more consistent language that was slow, prone to weird regressions, and a huge pain-in-the-ass to put into production compared to Python.
Ruby metaprogramming made for some write-once-read-never codebases.
- eric_h 4y agoHaving worked with both in production code, I wouldn’t put one or the other on top in terms of “pain-in-the-ass to put into production”
- alrs 4y agoBack when you could deploy Python with apache and mod_wsgi straight out of your distribution's package directory. Ruby meant mongrel or fcgi, usually hand-built off in /usr/local, usually leaking memory, usually coughing up core dumps on the regular. Ruby libraries that linked to C libraries usually depended on bleeding-edge versions that were on developer Macbooks, but not the versions that were packaged in Debian or Redhat.