I agree on your sentiments about Ruby/Rails. Rails also applies the philosophy of convention over configuration, so newcomers can’t usually just intuit what’s going on — you have to know their specific conventions, which also seem to change with each major release. And one of my pet peeves about Ruby as a language is the optional use of parentheses for function definitions and calls, making it harder to read through code quickly. In C-style syntax languages, it’s very obvious at a glance where functions are being called. Not so with Ruby.