[kjeetgill]

Not the parent but speaking myself, I feel the need to pick one or the other.

I'm not saying I hate Ruby. I just haven't take the time (nor had a reason to, frankly) become a fan the way I have with Python. Being similar languages in terms of both being dynamic, malleable, mostly single threaded and REPL-able they both seem to occupy the same spot in my toolbox.

Not to knock Ruby-the-language, but the one hitch is that Python's ecosystem is quite a bit vaster into fields I don't interact with (biology, physics, etc.) but also with many that I do (numpy/sympy, cli utilities and scripting, opencv, curl bindings). Where I'm at, it's most everyone's secondary or tertiary language.

Nothing against Ruby, it's just circumstance. If anything I might pick it up soon if only to access JRuby/TruffleRuby worlds which are much ahead of Jython/GraalPython.

Oh, except for function calls without (). And I'm not huge on DSLs. They seem icky but I grew to love significant whitespace in Python so maybe I'll grow to love those too.