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Discussion on: What's the difference? Ruby vs. Python

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Paul Cook

Programming skills are undoubtedly in high demand and learning a programming language can help you break into in-demand fields like web development, data analysis, machine learning, etc. Wondering which programming language to learn first?

Here, we are waging a tug-of-war between Ruby and Python and find out which programming language is the winner!

Ruby and Python, both the languages were incepted in the mid-90s, with different philosophies, in order to address needs in the programming community.

Both the languages are dynamic, flexible and object-oriented and have different set of functionalities. Ruby is mostly known for meta programming and widely used in web development whereas Python programming skills are highly sought-after by the data science community.

Therefore, which language is better isn’t a question of capability rather an alignment of features & functionalities to your project requirements.

So, find out your own winner programming language between Ruby vs. Python in the infographic bit.ly/3a5yjiG