Python and Ruby both work fine for bare metal systems programming. Plenty of bare-metal systems programming projects have been executed on both.
I'm a Ruby advocate, but if "being like everyone else in industry" is one of your decision axes, Python is a more conventional choice for low-level programming (at least, outside of security).
The "industry standard language" choice you're alluding to is C, which is a terrible choice for a primary language in 2009.
I'm a Ruby advocate, but if "being like everyone else in industry" is one of your decision axes, Python is a more conventional choice for low-level programming (at least, outside of security).
The "industry standard language" choice you're alluding to is C, which is a terrible choice for a primary language in 2009.