Python had been around much longer than that. But it was mostly in the realm of scientific things. Ruby became popular when Rails exploded and everyone got int

Python had been around much longer than that. But it was mostly in the realm of scientific things. Ruby became popular when Rails exploded and everyone got into Web 2.0. Lots of other frameworks came out after that and there was no other killer Ruby apps. But that doesn’t mean that the Ruby ecosystem weren’t doing great things. Just no “big hits”. Around that time NodeJS dropped and everything moved there. Python still had its niche in science/data. Computer Science departments started offering their intro CS classes in Python instead of Lisp. So it is no surprise why it exploded even more. A lot of Ruby-ism has found itself in Elixir. Which seems to slowly be gaining traction. All is not dead. It’s always just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. JS has always been a dumpster fire or garbage heap but it was in the right place at the right time. That’s the end of that.