When one option is overwhelmingly technically superior to another you can afford to ignore design, marketing and human psychology. Python and Ruby are close eno

When one option is overwhelmingly technically superior to another you can afford to ignore design, marketing and human psychology. Python and Ruby are close enough to interchangeable for web work that these other factors can be critical. Personally I'm really tired of hearing programmers dismiss the importance of aesthetics and branding. They can easily have more impact than all those technical details you spend so much time sweating over. Like it or not, humans are not cooly rational decision makers.