> The only ruby person I've met was insistent that ruby was the one true way and he trued to force it into everything. That attitude turned me off.

I mean, if you read almost any Elixir article that has hit the front page of HN, there are always comments from Pythonistas saying, "Why bother when there's Python?" Similar attitude. Obviously it's not everyone, but it's not everyone in the Ruby community either.

It’s such a bizarre reason. “One person using something rubbed me the wrong way so I decided not to use it”. Did the person extrapolate to an entire community from a sample size of 1?

Python and Ruby have some things where the intuitions are exactly inverted from one another. It took me a long time to figure out why Python rubbed me the wrong, and that if I dig up how I used to structure code in Pascal, it’s fine.

Not that I care much these days since I prefer writing in Elixir.

    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. 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.

I agree. I’ve found ruby and its developers to be pretty friendly and open to other languages and styles.