Ruby versus Python

April 16th, 2012

What are the pros and cons of each language? If you were to learn one,
which one would you choose?

Jon Cooper Chief Technology Officer at Colchis Capital Management

May 22nd, 2012

> One major selling point of Ruby is the quality and coherence of the plugin
> ecosystem. Ruby has many state-of-the-art features for sharing code
> between systems and between projects. This tradition has been honed in a
> pretty professional way, largely since the early adopters of Ruby were very
> talented and geeky linguists, and they set a very good, very public example
> of how to craft plugins.

Ron Feldman VP Product Management at GameChanger Media, Inc.

April 17th, 2012

There are many opinions on this but most people will tell you that it
doesn\'t matter that much if you\'re just trying to learn. There are also a
ton of posts explaining pros/cons of each language. Here\'s one by a friend
of mine in an infographic:

http://thethingisis.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pycon-2012-poster1.png

as part of a larger post:

http://thethingisis.com/2012/03/16/thoughts-on-pycon/

but note this is about choice for a start-up, not just as a language to
learn coding.

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