For anything else you might use ruby for you can use python, so you might as well just use python.

If rails is the best at making web apps, and other ecosystems in other languages maybe get you 90% of the way, might as well use something else and not deal with ruby sucking at other jobs.

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cosmic_cheese 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Surely language preference factors in somewhere. Python is opinionated and not everybody’s cup of tea.

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Alifatisk 5 days ago | parent [-]

I prefer Ruby because of it's flexible meta-programming capabilities, like I would easily draft my own DSL if I have an idea of how I want the syntax to look like. This is such a powerful and underrated feature of Ruby in my opinion

	▲	nickserv 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Funny, I don't like Ruby because it has easy access to metaprogramming. It's powerful, yes, but in my experience it's a powerful footgun that makes the code very difficult to understand and debug 6 months down the line. And if you have a bunch of "clever" programmers working on the codebase, the horror...

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realusername 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd say that other frameworks get you 70% of the way of Rails maximum and if that's what your building, it doesn't help knowning that the language is better in other areas you won't use.