Well, for one thing, the versions of ruby were sloow, like an order of magnitude slower than python at the time. It didn’t even have a JIT - it was pure interpr

Well, for one thing, the versions of ruby were sloow, like an order of magnitude slower than python at the time. It didn’t even have a JIT - it was pure interpretation - if you went through a loop 10 times, the code inside got parsed 10 times. Also, python predated ruby by several years. Python 1.5.2, which is about the earliest version that resembles modern Python, was release in early 1998. The first Dnglish language book on Ruby didn’t come out until late 2000.