I tried both at the same time and granted haven't coded anyhting real in Ruby but Python just won handsdown on every point that mattered for such a language:
* Readability
* Libraries
* Rapid protoyping
* Integration and support with other platforms, bindings to libraries n other languages
* Documentation
* Support form industry(while Ruby is pretty much only used in webapps Python is used in bioinformatics, engineering, GvR works at Google hacking on Python, it is used at NASA, has numpy+scipy+matplotlib).
I just don't see much reason to hang on to Ruby. Switch to Python and let Perl and Ruby die.
I tried both at the same time and granted haven't coded anyhting real in Ruby but Python just won handsdown on every point that mattered for such a language:
I just don't see much reason to hang on to Ruby. Switch to Python and let Perl and Ruby die.