About 6 months ago I decided to learn either Python or Ruby because I wanted a language to write webapps and simple computergames fast. If you're after writing

About 6 months ago I decided to learn either Python or Ruby because I wanted a language to write webapps and simple computergames fast. If you're after writing simple computer games fast, then you might have a look at Pygame: http://www.pygame.org/news.html http://www.pygame.org/news.html There are also a number of visual effects companies (ILM, Dreamworks) that use Python as their system scripting language. I don't know if it's because of that community, but I find a number of graphics/games libraries in Python: http://www.vrplumber.com/py3d.py http://www.vrplumber.com/py3d.py and http://vpython.org/ http://vpython.org/ Blender the open source 3D modeling program used Python as it's scripting language last I checked: http://www.blender.org/ http://www.blender.org/ I don't know if Ruby has libraries like that or not. I've only used Ruby to mess around with Rails.