i feel ruby's syntax is mostly done. an addition here or there, but breaking shall be rare as it just feels so finished. performance wise i think it can use (an

i feel ruby's syntax is mostly done. an addition here or there, but breaking shall be rare as it just feels so finished. performance wise i think it can use (and gets) a lot of love. on the python side things are different. python seems quite a bit faster then ruby. same league, but faster. yet its syntax is what needs to be greatly improved upon as it is so full of surprises and dark corners. a language's syntax it's like its API, and performance is an implementation "detail". breaking the API is much more painful then chaning the implementation -- therefor i prefer ruby's approach: begin slow but with a quite stable syntax. p.s. i dont intend to hurt feelings with this comment