I began my professional career writing Rails apps (previous experience in software was cobbled together Python and .NET scripts), and 1-2 years later made the full transition to Django and Python, mostly because my mentors and friends at the time were writing projects in Python. Plus, the job market for fullstack Python devs was much more lucrative at the time.

I must say though, I do miss Ruby and the syntactic sugar, packaging/dependency system, etc. The transition itself was also very painless. I’m keen on checking out the current state of Ruby and/or Rails 4-5 years later, as I’m sure much has changed!

The two main frameworks I use(d) have relative equivalents in both languages which is super nice (Flask and Sinatra, Rails and Django). Right now I’m in the FastAPI craze, but perhaps I’ll opt for Rails for my next personal project.

I did, but so many Ruby syntax decisions made no sense to me.

Im convinced the only people that like ruby are those that want to delve into metaprogramming. It might be fun for the person that constructs it but it is a nightmare as an outsider looking into a project.

I know this is more rails but the fact that autoloading is even a thing speaks to the wild nature of ruby.

This might just be me not understanding Ruby well enough, but managing packages and dependecies feel even worse in Ruby.

I used to love Ruby. But it’s too exciting. Python is boring, in a good way. Like mowing the lawn. Or buying potatoes. I no longer want excitement in the process, only in the results.