> I'd love for these to be the reasons but somehow I doubt any of us are that thorough. Hm. I think there's a difference between reasons for trying out a langu

> I'd love for these to be the reasons but somehow I doubt any of us are that thorough. Hm. I think there's a difference between reasons for trying out a language for some random task versus staying with it. I've bounced around between lots of different languages, and I suppose the list I presented above are why lots of people stay with Python. I think you're judgement of "mmm does it feel productive" roughly corresponds somewhat with the above list. Though I accidentally left off "good-enough docs", which I think is a given. > I couldn't really understand Apache in 30 minutes so I used nginx instead. Yeah. Though I think it has a lot to do with how good the docs are. Definitely, if a project can't tell me what it is, why I'd want to use it, and an overview of how it fits in, I'm very hesitant to pursue it further.