Title is a little flamebaity, considering it seems like he is adding python, rather than "moving to". I like both, but Ruby does it for me bigtime. I actually

Title is a little flamebaity, considering it seems like he is adding python, rather than "moving to". I like both, but Ruby does it for me bigtime. I actually wish it also had Python's whitespace rules, but since I use Haml a lot I still benefit from it sometimes. One important facet of Ruby is that it was written to optimize programmer happiness. As a result, it is a lot of fun to code in. The article's author says something similar himself: "Now, I want to be clear: I like Ruby better than Python. Its semantics make more sense to me than Python’s, and the language itself is more beautiful." As someone who codes between 2 and 20 hours a day, a language like that is where I want to be. Ruby does have its gaps so other languages are needed too - I use actionscript for front-end stuff (instead of MacRuby) and functional languages for concurrent programming (instead of EventMachine).