Monday, July 8, 2019

What should I choose either Python or Ruby for Projects?

In this post you will know which should i choose python or Ruby for web development. First, it should be said that both languages are great at solving a vast array of problems. You're asking which one you should choose, so I'll tell you my opinion.

Choose Python. It has a bigger and more diverse community of developers. Ruby has a great community as well, but much of the community is far too focused on Rails. The fact that a lot of people use Rails and Ruby interchangeably is pretty telling.

As for the differences between their syntax go: They both have their high and low points. Python has some very nice functional features like list comprehension and generators. Ruby gives you more freedom in how you write your code: parentheses are optional and blocks aren't whitespace delimited like they are in Python. From a syntactical point of view, they're both in a league of their own.

My reason for choosing Python (as my preferred language) though, had everything to do with the actual language itself. It actually has a real module system. It's clean and very easy to read. It has an enormous standard library and an even larger community contributed one.



Pros of Python:

perfect for AI, ML, data science and scripting
an easy programming language for startups
has good documentation
has a large and efficient community

Pros of Ruby:

perfect for startups
a very concise programming language
has a readable code
has lots of libraries and tools

Cons of Python:

not perfect for web development
works inefficiently with parallel threads and tasks
it’s slower than Ruby

Cons of Ruby:

has a smaller community compared to Python
shortage of flexibility
continuous evolvement

But one of the biggest reasons to choose Python over Ruby is the Python libraries. 

If you want to do anything beyond Web programming or if your Web app will ever do anything beyond marshaling data to and from the database (such as natural language processing), Python will probably have a library for it. 

For example, there really is no Ruby equivalent to SciPy, NumPy, Matplotlib.However, there has been some effort in the Ruby community to begin the process of developing some of these libraries.But the Python libraries have been in development for years so this will be no easy feat.

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