Python beat Ruby because it's boring technology, whereas Ruby prides itself on being as clever as possible. Take a large application written with Django vs the

Python beat Ruby because it's boring technology, whereas Ruby prides itself on being as clever as possible. Take a large application written with Django vs the equivalent Rails app. Even if the Django app was written by mediocre engineers and their Rubyist counterparts were very smart, it's probably much easier to spot the footguns in the Django app. The cognitive load of the average Rails monolith is almost unbearable to non Rails experts.