From my outsider perspective, equivalent Ruby tools advertise themselves a the Most Awesome Thing Ever(TM), with well-designed pages, funny characters and excee

From my outsider perspective, equivalent Ruby tools advertise themselves a the Most Awesome Thing Ever(TM), with well-designed pages, funny characters and exceedingly strong developer personalities. In comparison, big Python projects have a lower profile, a more serious, adult tone, and generally don't brag too much about their capabilities. In practice I've seen that the Python community's greater skepticism towards new packages means that libraries have evolved more slowly but with more certainty, whereas Ruby libs have been swapped out as fashions come an go. Witness the fact that Rails decided to package Coffeescript at its core, whereas Django has no strong opinions on frontend matters. Also look at Django's mature deprecation policy compared to pretty much everything else.