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What “lost”? They’re both Top 10 most used languages with tens of thousands of open positions currently available for someone competent in either.

Python’s the more frequently used of the two industry-wide, but it seems like they both won, just with different crowds.

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I think it's that Ruby has mostly been relegated to Rails, while Python sees use in backend systems, data science, scripts, and as a popular first language.

As a professional data scientist, I kinda wish ruby had won for this area, as it's much closer to R conceptually.

Python is fine, the metaobject model is pretty nice, and I've stopped noticing the double underscores ;)

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