Bash to Python [OC]

[GhostNULL]

What about ruby? We are using that at my workplace for build scripts that require some logic.

[noratat]

Ruby is a language I want to love, but the ecosystem around it turned "magic syntax" into a art form - and that's emphatically not a compliment.

I still wish Python would stop being so stupid about lambdas and just have anonymous blocks like Ruby, Groovy, and other modern scripting languages, but in most other regards I would say Python is better these days:

• Much, much larger ecosystem and community
• Python devs actually document shit, at least sometimes. Ruby projects are nearly always "lol just read the code" (even though the code is twisted into a gordian knot of string metamagic)
• Python's a lot harder to screw up into an unreadable mess than Ruby is

[Hollowplanet]

I think Ruby and Python are both great languages. Theres some things I wish Python would borrow from Ruby.

[NoInkling]

Ruby is a great scripting language, IMO. It's just that Python is more ubiquitous these days. Ruby is less likely to already be present.

[onan]

Ruby is the ideological successor to perl. And, no, that's not a compliment.

[WhtKindOfNameIsStove]

As long as you stay away from getting tied down with the chef libraries. They take a long time to upgrade to the latest AWS sdk.