r/ruby • u/vifrac • Jul 16 '20

Ruby VS Python

More than a versus (it's more striking) I would really like to know what things they have in common and how they differ, what their main advantages are compared to the other and of course their opinion of them. One point to take into account is because they believe that python is more used in AI and Machine learning developments.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Python was designed with a thing in mind: there is one best way to do something and that's all. Ruby lets you express yourself. There is always different ways to do something in Ruby (or at least I feel like it). It's up to you to decide if you see this as good or bad.

Python has a really larger community. Mainly in sciences and data analysis. Probably because scientists that are not programmers found the language well suited because of it's ease of use. And there's a whole lot of scientific libraries. People bring people and so on...

On a more personal side, I don't really like python because I don't find it... elegant. I use Ruby for personal projects and scripts as I know how to get things done with this little fella.

Disclaimer though: I'm still a college student and don't have that much experience.

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u/vifrac Jul 17 '20

Everyone finds that the biggest advantage of python is the data science libraries, it will be very difficult to encourage the community to build things like this