Didn't even bother with another dynamic language * , went straight to the JVM and discovered Scala (framework-wise, enjoying Play) * not totally true, 6 month

Didn't even bother with another dynamic language * , went straight to the JVM and discovered Scala (framework-wise, enjoying Play) * not totally true, 6 months on Groovy, followed by 6 months of hell (AKA pre-2.0 Grails) Can't speak for Python other than a couple of months of Django (out of the box CRUD functionality is indeed nice). After a couple of years of Scala can't imagine going back to a runtime only language (other than Coffeescript/LESS via GruntJS for the front end)