Go for the library support. I chose python because of existing functionality I needed now. Writing it from scratch would have been very time consuming. As for

Go for the library support. I chose python because of existing functionality I needed now. Writing it from scratch would have been very time consuming. As for non-web services, Python has some good GUI tools and some workable ways to make windows apps. It also didn't hurt that google is behind python. The speedups targeted seem attainable. http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ As for finding engineers who are good at ruby or python, it's pretty slim pickings for either.