Thomas,

Can you elaborate on why you say the increase in JavaScript's popularity is mostly due to node.js? I know node is a booming server-side JS library but there are also some booming client-side libraries (Angular, Breeze, Knockout, Backbone, Bootstrap, etc.). The reason I ask is I am making a fairly sizable personal bet on JavaScript /jQuery tools and hope I am not focusing in the wrong place.


>Metin,
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>IMO Rails is the only thing you might consider as a reason to learn Ruby. It is the one and only web package making things much easier.
>Most of the good ideas from Rails went into Python (and JS) web frameworks - but there are many frameworks in the other languages, making another choice necessary. With Django you certainly picked the biggest and best supported one. Web2Py is the other "global" web fwk in py IMO, but the trend there is to build your own web fwk package from several micro-fwks. Micro-fwks are a good idea if you do this every day for different clients, but raises the barrier for the first 1 or 2 apps a bit.
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>From user count Python wins clearly over Ruby IMO, but you did not mention JS. And JS is gaining popularity - thnks mostly to node.js - so in my opinion the decision should fall between Python and Javascript. Python being more elegant and expressive, JS with the benefit that you must have some idea of it IAC for the client side.
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>thomas
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>>Nowadays in my spare times I'm looking for Ruby and Python. Which your advice?
>>I learned a few things:
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>>-Python runs on Windows, Linux, OS X but it's not easy to make Windows store and Apple store applications.
>>-You can create applications for all these platforms and create Apple store applications easly with Ruby (RubyMotion) don't know about Windows store.
>>-Ruby more object oriented, Python faster.
>>-Python is more popular.
>>-Both of these has a huge instant-ready free libraries.
>>-Both of these ability to create web applications (Django and Rails).
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>>I just learned these (If these are correct) and read Python language references first 30 papers...
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>>I would like to know more and your advice. There are a lot of Python vs Ruby pages on Google but all of these are written by an Rubbyist or Pythonist. I would like to know a VFP developer's idea...