Ruby is a fantastically good language with a slow bloated runtime. That killed Ruby. Python was less good and less bloated, but still bloated. I think we use

Ruby is a fantastically good language with a slow bloated runtime. That killed Ruby. Python was less good and less bloated, but still bloated. I think we use Python now only because our computers are orders of magnitude more powerful than a decade ago when I was watching Python Zope slow to a crawl and die.