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I've used them both in production enough to feel qualified to counter these, but we'd all just be arguing for our opinions. Both are excellent frameworks, with no clear standout IMO.

I will say one thing in response: we've found it approximately 10x easier to find devs having years of experience with Python than with Ruby. That's a non-trivial argument in Django's favour in our organisation.




Perhaps, but ruby is trivial to learn.


The basics are trivial to learn but the object model and lambda style programming as well as metaprogramming (method_missing, etc) can be overwhelming for some folks to pick up quickly. I absolutely love Ruby though.




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