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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by skywal_l on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:32AM (#34244061)
> * Ruby was created as a personal, hobby project; Python was created while Guido worked in research institutions, and it helped Python gain recognition in academia environment

As a data point, I remember interviewing for an internship in a research institution doing some work on medical images around 2002/2003 and the supervisor telling me that Python was the lingua franca in this domain (from a research and POC development perspective).

Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by pjmlp on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:18PM (#34250857)
While I was at CERN during early 2000's, it was already being used for the build tooling and package management of HLT.

Trainings for getting Python skills were a common offering.

Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by 4m1rk on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:04AM (#34271541)
These explain why Python is the defacto for AI/ML which is interesting but I still totally agree with the idea of Python's simplicity making it just a better choice to get things done. I had a journey from Scala, a compile-time type-safe, flexible and exciting language to Python a dynamic, simple and boring one. Python code just end up being done fast and clean. Scala one never gets the team consensus and is never consistent.