The only ruby person i've met was insistent that ruby was the one true way
That sucks. I've been doing Ruby full-time since 2014 at 4 companies and I've never seen that sentiment, even from people who really love it. My experiences have been really positive.
My experience with python was simply, people wanting to get shit done. This was circa 2008. They weren't really engaging in language wars, but doing innovative things like extending Java, with Jython.
I was arguing for the F500 company I was working on to explore using Jython to write unit tests for Java code.
Why not have a scripting language to write unit tests for Java code?
I see this with Rust trying to extend python in interesting ways. I don't see this with Java trying to extend C/C++ or Python.
