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jacquesm on Aug 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Martin Odersky on Scala and Clojure

I'm not sure that that is a valid side-by-side, python by no means is a success because of Django but I'm fairly sure that lots of people would have never used Ruby if it weren't for rails.

cageface on Aug 6, 2010 [–]

Popularity is a totally orthogonal issue. In any case, like Scala and Clojure, both languages are now reasonable choices for new development or study.

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