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Original Post: Ruby Driving Python Into the Ground
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When I sent this tidbit around to our editors list, Jonathan Gennick remarked:
Largely due to Rails, I'd bet. Interestingly, I just happen to have
been talking today to David Ascher and others about Python web
frameworks. I get the idea that there is much (or at least some)
wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Python camp over the ascendency
of Ruby due to Rails. TurboGears and Django are two frameworks I'm
starting to learn about, but I don't know that either of those is
truly an answer to what Ruby has in Rails.
Rob Orsini replied:
A friend of mine, Ben Bangert, is working with Ian Bicking on a direct port of Rails to Python called Pylons. They've chosen all the best of breed components from the Python world for Pylons.
Ruby on Rails is indeed, as Jonathan suggests, the driver
of the interest in Ruby, which, after all, has been around for years
without generating the kind of surge it's seen in the past six months.
But as you can see, we're on the fence about whether or not Python has
an answer to RoR (and we're not even asking the question about Perl!)
Lots of great stuff in the article, particularly for those of us working on Ruby book projects. As for Pylons, their front page actually says the following:
Please note, this is not even to a 0.1 point yet. Unless you like playing around with Python web framework stuff, you probably have better things to be doing.
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