> I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better. As you say, > Network effects did the rest. In an alternate set of universes, Ruby has Python's current posi

> I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better. As you say, > Network effects did the rest. In an alternate set of universes, Ruby has Python's current position, and you are wondering why Python didn't take off. (But I suspect Ruby evolved fairly differently in those cases.) The universes where both are popular are much rarer.