if you’re going to learn Ruby, it might as well be while patching up effective-altruism.com
Unfortunately, the forum is actually written in very antiquated Python. :(
Fixed in original post.
FWIW, I’ve worked extensively w/ both Ruby and Python and I recommend Python for beginning programmers. (Ruby is pretty good too though.)
That makes sense; but I don’t think you’d learn good Python habits from the EA forum codebase. Though we definitely could use someone who could try!
What’s your timeline on that? web programming is in my medium-term goals.
There’s definitely some work we’d be eager to see done, but I don’t think it’s time sensitive. I’ll write up what that might be and get back to you.
Unfortunately, the forum is actually written in very antiquated Python. :(
Fixed in original post.
FWIW, I’ve worked extensively w/ both Ruby and Python and I recommend Python for beginning programmers. (Ruby is pretty good too though.)
That makes sense; but I don’t think you’d learn good Python habits from the EA forum codebase. Though we definitely could use someone who could try!
What’s your timeline on that? web programming is in my medium-term goals.
There’s definitely some work we’d be eager to see done, but I don’t think it’s time sensitive. I’ll write up what that might be and get back to you.