That may be, in which case Python belongs in the same bucket. I'm not convinced, actually. Most of the "ruby shops" I know use it only for the most trivial of a

That may be, in which case Python belongs in the same bucket. I'm not convinced, actually. Most of the "ruby shops" I know use it only for the most trivial of applications, being essentially rest-like proxies between clients and Java (or other language) services. But I don't know everything and anecdotes aren't data for sure.