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For both Ruby and Python most of time I use Emacs without an LSP, and it works better with Ruby than Python. I never search _exactly_ why Ruby became so less p
by lucasoshiro 2y ago
For both Ruby and Python most of time I use Emacs without an LSP, and it works better with Ruby than Python.
I never search _exactly_ why Ruby became so less popular than Python, but I think that at least two things:
- Having its popularity too much dependent of Rails;
- Not having any other killer app (e.g. Python is not only Django, but NumPy, TensorFlow, Pandas, Flask and so on);
So, even if I love Ruby, Python is still my main language for most of things as it has a huge ecosystem and it is easy to use. But for writing shell scripts the advantages that I mentioned in the article generally I don't care too much about those things.
- portpecos 2y agoEven from a systems perspective there are more tools available in Python. Pyroute2 vs netlinkrb which was last updated 8 years ago and only does a few things. It’s sad because ruby had the potential, but ruby developers prefer to focus on the Rails ecosystem.