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Is there ever all this hype/bullshit drama around Python? I never see it on HN; it's almost always seems Rails related for whatever reason. I'm so glad TicketS

• davidw 18y ago
  Having a bit of it is effective. I came to Rails from the Tcl world, and while there is some good technology in Tcl, including i18n, good thread integration, a wonderful C API, and a nice event loop, the language itself has been marketed horribly.
  • jrockway 18y ago
    Aggressive marketing is not necessarily a good thing. A lot of people are using Ruby because "it's cool", not because they understand why it's better. As a result, they don't really help the community, all they do is fanboi (as though "recruiting new members" gets you somewhere). You want a competent community so they write libraries for you. Ruby's community seems to actively discourage people that aren't using it for religious reasons, since the techniques they use for marketing tend to attract the religious type. Ruby's a good language, don't get me wrong, but the community needs some help.