> People. Python hackers are much, much nicer folks to hang around with. I don't like to start a war here so I'll refrain from going further with this point. Be

> People. Python hackers are much, much nicer folks to hang around with. I don't like to start a war here so I'll refrain from going further with this point. Besides, I feel like Zed Shaw said it all. I don't buy this point. I think you're confusing what Zed said about the Rails community with the reality of the Ruby community. Frankly, from what I've seen, the Rails community is a bit of a ghetto within the larger Ruby community. I've also seen a lot of what amounts to acrimony and vitriol from Pythonistas when discussing other languages, where Rubyists (not Rails developers, specifically, but people in the broader Ruby community) have tended to be much more appreciative of what developers in other language communities, and other languages, bring to the party. What's the difference between a Rubyist response to a Python way of doing things and a Pythonista response to a Ruby way of doing things? In my experience, the Rubyist says "Hey, that's kinda neat -- but it's not for me," but the Pythonista says "You're doing it wrong."