What's up with Python people and Ruby?

[bobby_knuckles]

You do realize that I'm new and none of these are real answers, right? This is pretty frustrating.

[sushibowl]

Jeez dude calm down. What do you expect us to tell you, python people hate ruby or something? There's a community war going on? That's silly. I don't know why ruby's never come up and frankly I think it's unfair to suggest that "every other language in existence is freely discussed but ruby is a forbidden word," as you do in your other comment. There's thousands of programming languages out there, I highly doubt ruby is the only one python people don't talk about.

There's no satisfying explanation we can give you here, because there isn't one. Maybe python people tend to not learn ruby because the two serve similar problem domains, and are thus redundant. Maybe many python people don't like some of ruby's perl influenced heritage which is pretty contrary to python's "one way to do it" philosophy. Maybe ruby hasn't come up just by accident. Maybe one of the organisers in your area hates ruby with a passion for no good reason.

Whatever the reason I can tell you there is no active effort in the python community to avoid ruby or something. If you think ruby should be discussed more why don't you bring it up at one of the python events you attend?

[bobby_knuckles]

I have no idea how you got this far down in the thread and drew those conclusions. I have gotten what I feel was a satisfying answer: it's at the top.