The fewer languages we use, the easier it is for people to hack on stuff.  Python is especially nice because it&#39;s optimized for readability and predictability, so it&#39;s more approachable to people who aren&#39;t experts in that language.  If we currently have only a small dependency on Ruby, it makes sense to me to bring that dependence to 0 and to try and stick with Python from now on.<div>

<br></div><div>J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:56 PM, TAMURA, Kent <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tkent@chromium.org">tkent@chromium.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Do we have any recommendation of programming language for scripts such as WebKitTools/Scripts?<div>It seems new scripts are written by Python and Ruby code is very rare.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it reasonable to port a Ruby script to Python? </div>



<div>I tried to port PrettyPatch.rb to Python in <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43617" target="_blank">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43617</a> in order to remove Ruby dependency for many developers and buildbots.  However bdash objected it.</div>



<div><br>-- <br>TAMURA Kent <br>Software Engineer, Google <br><br><br><br>
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