Maybe I'm naive, but in my mind besides their ecosystems and superficial syntax differences there isn't that much functionally different between Python and Ruby

Maybe I'm naive, but in my mind besides their ecosystems and superficial syntax differences there isn't that much functionally different between Python and Ruby, with the major to exception of blocks in Ruby. In which case the decision between the two seems to be between a thing and a slightly better version of itself. I totally respect that many people see this differently and probably exactly opposite but to me it always feels really hard to justify using python for this reason. Just for fairness sake I'm not trying to trash python. I think it's a great language.