True python's lambda's suck. And Ruby's lambda's for the most part don't suck.

But ruby's methods really do suck, and so do the complex construction of Blocks. While I recognize that blocks allow you to do weird things (like use return on the calling scope), the fact that they necessitate a special form (yield) and cannot be bound to a variable, and are not passed as standard function parameters just makes them inconsistent and gross.

Methods which aren't first class functions (but can be transformed into one with the helpful helper function!) also suck, and passing those around in a functional way is just a lesson in futility.

All that being said, I have much more faith in these warts being fixed as time goes on, than python's nasty lambda, and the gross over use of dunders.