I'd say the languages are largely equivalent. Roughly the same level of abstraction, roughly the same technical trade-offs. Highly productive, lots of people en

I'd say the languages are largely equivalent. Roughly the same level of abstraction, roughly the same technical trade-offs. Highly productive, lots of people enjoy them, not very strict. What Python does have specifically for automation in my eyes is that it is often the default language for most Raspberry Pi-related hardware libraries. So if you want to build home automation on accessible and easy hardware, the Pi is very welcoming to Python just in terms of making things easy, providing libraries. It is also heavily supported for machine learning and computer vision which is related. Again, this is generally just a matter of library support. I don't know the Ruby ecosystem well enough to say if it has equivalents to all the Python scraping, fuzzy matching and such libraries out there. But I expect it does. So that bit is probably a wash. Hope that gives a perspective.