My guess is it could also have to do with the communities. Anecdotally, the limited sample of ruby-istas I have interacted with tend to have more tolerance of c

My guess is it could also have to do with the communities. Anecdotally, the limited sample of ruby-istas I have interacted with tend to have more tolerance of churn for improvement's sake whereas the people attracted to python are more interested in stability because they are focused on some other need that the code is mearly an ends to.