I did a switch in a reverse direction. From Ruby to Python. People actually shouldn't compare both languages in terms of language constructs and what or what no

I did a switch in a reverse direction. From Ruby to Python. People actually shouldn't compare both languages in terms of language constructs and what or what not they got right. They are similar enough that it doesn't matter. What matters is library support and the community. I got into Ruby by pure accident (No Rails-bait). I needed a scripting language to automate some tasks and one of my friends was playing with it back then and suggested it. Ruby's weakness (and it's strength at the same time) is that it got popularized by Rails. As a result a huge community has grown around it - but it brought a tunnel vision effect along with it. People don't recognize that there are things besides Rails and it's reflected in weak (non web-dev) library support. I didn't like the fact that there's a big push in Ruby-land for metaprogramming / DSLs and monkey patching. Ruby's not inherently that great at it. It just happens that you can do it, but it doesn't mean you should. Which has always been in my eyes mostly a big abuse of *_eval, method_missing etc. that leads to performance issues, maintainability issues, and so on. All that just to save a few keystrokes. Couple that with the very implicit nature of Ruby then you get a disaster. How often did I want to use libraries that turned out to be monkey-patching the same built-in classes and clashing with each other, How often did I want to delve to some code base to customize something, make a fix, etc. just to find such coding practices and being unable to reason about it in a regular object oriented fashion which Ruby's foundations are built on. The more I wanted to build serious things in Ruby the more often I would hit such problems. This all brings a question: What would happen if Rails had disappeared the next day. What would all these people do? What could they use instead? It was an obvious choice not to stick with Ruby because it has nothing to offer in the long term over Python. Learning python is a very good investment - I can do web programming, gui programming, scientific computing. I can use it to script blender, gimp, you name it. And unlike Ruby - I have excellent alternatives for each task.