{"id":166,"date":"2026-07-12T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:30:28","slug":"two-new-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/uncategorized\/two-new-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been learning Ruby and Python lately &#8211; Python because it&#8217;s become required to dive into AI experiments, and Ruby because it&#8217;s a beautiful language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago I used Python in a cybersecurity class, and it&#8217;s nice, but I wish Ruby had become the AI language as it&#8217;s way more ergonomic and enjoyable. At least it has Rails for a practical application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been reading the &#8220;pickaxe book&#8221; by Pragmatic Programmers for Ruby and &#8220;Learning Python&#8221; for Python &#8211; both classics apparently, and both an interesting read.  Also started playing with scripts in PyCharm and RubyMine (JetBrains IDEs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been learning Ruby and Python lately &#8211; Python because it&#8217;s become required to dive into AI experiments, and Ruby because it&#8217;s a beautiful language. Years ago I used Python in a cybersecurity class, and it&#8217;s nice, but I wish Ruby had become the AI language as it&#8217;s way more ergonomic and enjoyable. At least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/uncategorized\/two-new-languages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two New Languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,27,26,25],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-languages","tag-python","tag-ruby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonte.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}