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I suspect that Ruby and Python programmers are likely in a better position to switch than are programmers in other languages. For example, if you're in the CLR
by elarkin 14y ago
I suspect that Ruby and Python programmers are likely in a better position to switch than are programmers in other languages.
For example, if you're in the CLR or the JVM already, there's a lot of reason not to move. Ruby and Python's relative obscurity might work to their benefit.
- mtrn 14y ago>For example, if you're in the CLR or the JVM already, there's a lot of reason not to move. Yes, it seems economic. After investing time in the larger and more enterprise-focused ecosystems, you'll probably have less incentives to try or move to something else. That's not implying, that Python and Ruby don't have great ecosystems themselves.
- duaneb 14y agoRuby and Python programmers HAVE to be able to switch, otherwise they're unemployable. I can't think of any pure-python (or ruby) stack, and if you can't maintain your stack, you're going to have problems.
- joshuakarjala 14y agoI guess you could also somewhat argue, that programmers who have already potentially jumped (or diversified) from something that was more mainstream (PHP, Java, C# etc.) to Python/Ruby - are more prone to jump or at least try out new languages. Or more cynically they have a higher potential of being language hipsters :)