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python does many things well ruby does one thing very well So apparently the "do one thing well" thingy doesn't always hold
by avip 3y ago
python does many things well
ruby does one thing very well
So apparently the "do one thing well" thingy doesn't always hold
- JAlexoid 3y agoThat one thing, RoR, isn't the best option at all today. The moment that XHttpRequest came to be - it started the countdown to RoR's popularity decline. HTML5 just made it permanent.
- zem 3y agoruby does a lot of things well - it is still the best language i've found for quickly exploring a problem in code, or prototyping a solution. i'm less happy with the experience of maintaining a large codebase in it but only because i've found other languages that have much better support for that.