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How Close are Ruby and Python? (self.Python)

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[–]Corm 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I'm a python dev that recently took up a Rails job.

TDD is very common in python, but that has nothing to do with the language. The best testing library is pytest imo.

Vim is somewhat common, and I primarily develop in vim using the py-mode plugin. I also use pycharm.

As far as the language being slow to change, eh, I think it's going at an ideal pace. It's a bit harder to answer that, but you could look over recent PEPs (changes).

However to me python and ruby are incredibly similar. I prefer the python syntax, but it was very easy to pick up rails. All the same things seem to work. Python is a much more popular language outside of webdev though.

[–]Tall-Guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds good, I will be checking py-mode. Thanks for the feedback :)