Re: Is ruby a good choice for infosec?

	Subject: Is ruby a good choice for infosec?
	Date: ven 06 dic 19 07:50:44 +0530
Sorry for the delay!


>    The internet is full of python for infosec, is ruby a good choice too ? I
>    know metasploit and Ronin are built in ruby but python has more security
>    focused packages like paramiko..
>    What's your take?

My take is the take of one who is not working in infosec, nor would he,
since information security is an impossible goal to reach, and those
who promise security know, or should know, that they are delivering
hopes rather than certainties.

Nevertheless, I can intuit that anybody who would really manage to
gain insights and obtain practical results from his work in this mined
field would need to become *very* intimate with the tools he uses. The
best is if he can develop them himself, but even if some pre-made
packages are used, certainly the sheer number of available packages is
not an advantage per se: why have twenty-five types of wrench
available, all with different handles and different build quality, if
the wrench you end up using is always the same one?

Ruby *as a language* (that is, not because of the libraries it
provides) offers great advantages of expressivity in the code you
write. The good programmer finds this of great value.

Carlo

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