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People learn Pandas and Numpy and Scikit-learn, not Python, when I learned how they worked porting …

… People learn Pandas and Numpy and Scikit-learn, not Python, when I learned how they worked porting the examples to Axon[1] wasn't hard. I managed to do it with the help of a colleague whose versed in learning programming and he thought Axon was more readable than Python. But then again, people usually think they know X better, feel more confident in X and will keep making the same mistakes over and over, because they don't know what they don't know and their salary do not depend on it. They have people like us fixing their code. Their salary depend on writing "I know X" on their CV, which usually is just not entirely true. Ruby just got out of fashion, but it isn't inferior to any other language out there and its ecosystem is completely fine. Reminder: TruffleRuby exists. [1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

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How is "I don't like it" not a good reason for not using something? Ruby in science is the path of most resistance; if your work isn't already hard enough, here's a way to make it harder. That's because everyone is using Python. Think of it like writing scientific papers in English even though you like Esperanto better. Everyone uses English, so you have to too. That's Python's current state.

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TY

> Ruby just got out of fashion Adoption-wise Ruby is a new Perl. Such a shame really, Ruby is one of the best scripting languages yet available, if Linux distributions had it by default it would dominate over py and shell-scripts.

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MI

> "I go make shoppings" It's a shame that this example will only be understood by the people who already agree with arguments against Python; but you really made my day with it.

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