In terms what they can do, Ruby and Python are very similar, yet Python generates about 1/100th the drama of the Ruby community. I'd say that points very strong

In terms what they can do, Ruby and Python are very similar, yet Python generates about 1/100th the drama of the Ruby community. I'd say that points very strongly at ego, or at least the culture of the community. If that doesn't convince you, have a look at the update at the bottom of this post from Giles: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/rails-went-off-rails-why-im-rebuilding.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/rails-went-off-ra... Python programmers appear to be more welcoming and don't seem to have the same need to wave enormous meta-programming wangs at each other. Not to say that metaprogramming isn't useful, but that it's just another tool in the toolbox. Take mailsnake for example: https://github.com/Leftium/mailsnake/blob/master/mailsnake/mailsnake.py https://github.com/Leftium/mailsnake/blob/master/mailsnake/m... Completely classy :)