Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists?

Posted by z3phyr on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:22AM
from the self-post dept.

Especially the non-web, non-rails community of ruby..

What holds in the future between ruby2 and python3?

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Re:Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists? by mosesschwartz on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @12:03PM (#4871852)

Ruby's image to the programming public is inextricably linked to Rails, and so to web development, and making fun of web developers is a time-honored tradition among people who fancy themselves "Real Programmers."

Outside of this (friendly?) rivarly, I think even the most obstinate Pythonista has to recognize that Ruby is a perfectly capable language for non-web development.

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Re:Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists? by sailfrog on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:58AM (#4871482)

Because python devs look down on everybody :)

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Re:Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists? by r4vik on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:27AM (#4871315)

they are? news to me

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Re:Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists? by z3phyr on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:39AM (#4871376)

Look at the forums and stuff.. They seem to speak of python as kings and ruby as a second class citizen...

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Re:Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists? by stray on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:55AM (#4871459)

Because ruby sucks -- just kidding... I didn't know python devs even had much of an opinion about the ruby folks.

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