You may not be completely familiar with them? The object model is fundamentally different. The syntax is vastly different. The runtime capabilities are different. Performance characteristics are different. (Ruby has less startup-time overhead.)

Subjectively, I’ve been using Python since version 1.5? on classic Mac OS — but I’ve never liked it much. Always feels like a struggle to do basic flow control. Ruby really clicked for me. The ‘_why the lucky stiff’ quote really resonates: it’s the language Buddha would have programmed in.