I didn't down vote you, it seems HN doesn't allow me to down vote on threads I'm participating in. If it did, I'd down vote your last comment.
I think the JVM is the more significant platform compared to the clr and rubinius/pypy. Therefore I think it's maturity is more significant.
The PyPy team is amazing, for example Quora is now running on PyPy. and it's easy for a Python programmer run PyPy as an alternative(and hopefully fast) implementation.
Re:Why Python is Important for You
by ramblerman on Sunday February 12, 2012 @05:42AM
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It's ironic that you would point the finger at communities for not being mature.
Yours is by far the least pleasant and counterproductive thread on this entire discussion
No (and screw you for your unwarranted downvote you ass)
> Python 3 is causing serious pain, does django work with it yet?
I did not deny that, I denied your equation of Python 3 with Ruby 1.9 when they have absolutely nothing in common and had very different goals.
> Second, who cares why JRuby is more mature, it is.
That's not the issue with your question, the issue is that you cherrypick a single alternative implementation which supports whatever claim you're trying to make and ignore all others. That makes your claim both dishonest and irrelevant.
IronPython is more mature than IronRuby, Pypy is more mature than Rubinius, by your comment that makes 2 for 1 therefore Python is superior to Ruby right? That's nonsense, because your original assertion is nonsense.
But hey, at the end of the day I couldn't expect much more from somebody who decided to turn a discussion on relative merits into a dick-size contest. I guess the western ruby community has not matured as much as I thought it did. Thanks for bringing me back to reality.