Ruby is probably the most zen thought interpreted OO programming language. Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=IpkcxQEdui Rails is probably the mo

Ruby is probably the most zen thought interpreted OO programming language. Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=IpkcxQEdui Rails is probably the most zen thought web framework. Compare Rails#has_many with Django#foreign_key , which feels more natural? The sum renders the benefit of cognitive discharge that lets you focus on important stuff and not tinker on details. The rest is huge community, huge documentation, large mature ecosystem (mostly web stuff, python's SciPy pretty much way-ahead, all tough ruby can do science too), lots of best practices from the start, github-lead, mature implementations etc