With all of the LinkedIn and Groupon hype, as well as other companies like Pandora, why can none of them turn profits? These companies seem to hemorrhage money like no tomorrow, with investors only looking at revenue not profit. I'm curious of everyone else's opinions.
The guy might have a PhD, but he knows nothing about usability of languages. He also dissed OOP, but I guess having concepts that accurately represent data are shit too.
I tried Django in my early coding days, and I liked it at first. I tried Rails and switched immediately. I think it was the fact the Django used mostly Regular Expressions for routes, and Rails wasn't so over sophisticated. The pythonic semantics Django uses just seemed awkard to me when I was a beginner, and the ruby way Rails used seemed a lot easier to pickup.
If you are looking for community members, both ruby and python have large amounts of users, and active irc, as does both Django and Rails. Rails does seem to be more actively developed(to me) than Django. Django hasn't had a major release since v1.0.0, and Rails is on version 3.0.5.
That's just my 2 cents. Whatever you like better, and whatever fits the job, I would go with that one.
On the bright side, https://github.com/josevalim/elixir was recently released and made me actually like Erlang a bit more. Ruby like syntax with the power of Erlang without a performance hit.
Basically the intent is to focus on ruby. No Java, no python, just ruby programmers answering ruby questions.