Matz loves Python?
Matz love Python (and why not I ask?). ;)
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The community is way more mature than Ruby’s and there’s a lot to learn from them.
Way more mature? In age, perhaps, but I’ve had a look at the Python community online and it seems really weak. Python developers seem to be very independent of one another. I couldn’t find any particularly strong Python-focused blogs, for example.
Python’s a great language… so great, in fact, that I would expect to see more Python advocacy online. So I agree with Peter… where are all the Python blogs? And while we’re at it, where’s the cohesive social code mechanism? Think there’s a correlation?
Perl has CPAN, Ruby has RubyGems, RubyForge, and now GitHub… Where is the Python equivalent? Is that hurting Python’s growth potential? I’ve always thought so.
However, in my experience, #python is full of knowledgeable and helpful people who love to help you with your problem. If you’re a pythonista wondering where the rest of your kind are, try IRC.
ab5tract is waiting for someone to photoshop an S on Matz’ chest.
It seems to me that Python people tend to write documentation instead of blog posts - from my, admittedly limited, experience, the average Python library is significantly better documented than the average Ruby lib.
I think the barriers to contributing docs are often too high, especially since useful information comes from newbies wrestling with an API, but who are not skilled/confident enough to submit patches to the source repository.
Secondly, there is a culture, at least in the Rails community, to publish everything on your own blog for marketing purposes. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but it leads to Ruby “docs” being scattered all over different blogs, and, going back to the original post, to a seemingly more active community.
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