Often people ask questions - which programming language is easier, which is the most popular, which one to start learning and so on. In this article we will compare two languages Python and Ruby; their reference implementations CPython and MRI, to be exact.

We took the latest versions of the source code from the repositories (Ruby, Python) for the analysis. There weren’t many glaring errors in these projects. Most of them are related to the usage of macros, although this code is quite innocent from the point of view of the developer. But at the same time, such suspicious fragments that occurred because of copy paste, comparing SOCKET type with null, undefined behavior, storing values to the variables that are already used or null pointer dereferencing are really worth reviewing.

Having analyzed all the warnings of general analysis diagnostics and removed all the false positives, we have come to the following conclusion concerning the error density:



More details about the code fragments where these suspicious code fragments were found:
http://bit.ly/2a2lLZR

It’s worth saying that despite these flaws, the code is still of high quality. We should also take such factors into account as the size of the codebase , or the fact that some fragments are erroneous only from the point of view of C++ language and they don’t affect the program in any way. That’s why this analysis may be rather subjective, because previously we haven’t evaluated the error density of these projects. We’ll try to do that in the future, so that we can later compare the result of the checks.