Looking at Tiobe, in the early 2000s Python was a lot more popular than Ruby although neither was very popular. Then RoR took off but that only made Ruby on par

Looking at Tiobe, in the early 2000s Python was a lot more popular than Ruby although neither was very popular. Then RoR took off but that only made Ruby on parity with Python as Python's popularity was also growing. Or in other words, 90% of Ruby talk became about RoR while Python wasn't. If you're making a quick local program or library, would you pick the language where people only seem to do web dev or one that seems to have broader adoption? edit: Which lines up with my recollection, Ruby was synonymous with Rails and web dev while Python wasn't type cast yet.