[ikailan]

Learn what you want to learn, because your tools will change. Many Ruby programmers came to Ruby because of Rails. I'm part of the camp that stuck around because of JRuby for a while, but nowadays I find that I write very little Ruby and a lot more Python.

Don't worry too much about what you hear about performance. If you are building a Twitter, then yes, it might matter what language you're learning. Ruby, Python, and PHP tend to be in the same ballpark in terms of performance, with each having their own warts.

As of late, I've been most interested in golang.org. You can learn the basics in an afternoon at tour.golang.org.

[randomsearch]

Cool, thanks. Actually, Go was an alternative I was considering for my next language. More worthy than Ruby? Is it a possible Python replacement?