Chef requires Ruby programming. Puppet doesn't, but the core is obviously Ruby, and you extend it using Ruby.
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The core is Python but you can write modules in any language.
You may possibly like my new project:
The core is Python but you can write modules in any language.
When open source projects like chef have nobody interested in even documenting much less testing backwards incompatibilities we move them to the bottom of our to-eval list.
This also illustrates a problem in article's blind enthusiasm for the latest revisions and libraries i.e., it dismisses the headaches this causes end-users, who often don't have staff or budget to fix whatever breaks during an upgrade. That said we are at least talking about python, which has had better release QA and backwards compatibility than perl, ruby or, gasp, php.
I'm curious as to your experience here. I've found that Perl has by far the best backwards compatibility and release QA of the major dynamic languages. What did you encounter?