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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by JohnBooty on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:57PM (#37316731) 

    The only ruby person i've met was insistent that ruby was the one true way
That sucks. I've been doing Ruby full-time since 2014 at 4 companies and I've never seen that sentiment. My experiences have been really positive.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by bb88 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:06PM (#37317169)
My experience with python was simply, people wanting to get shit done. This was circa 2008. They weren't really engaging in language wars, but doing innovative things like extending Java, with Jython.

I was arguing for the F500 company I was working on to explore using Jython to write unit tests for Java code.

Why not have a scripting language to write unit tests for Java code?

I see this with Rust trying to extend python in interesting ways. I don't see this with Java trying to extend C/C++ or Python.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by zerbinxx on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:09PM (#37317201)
I agree. I’ve found ruby and its developers to be pretty friendly and open to other languages and styles.
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