What made python beat out Ruby?

There was one way to do things. It was simple, and it worked.

Then python 3 wanted to become JavaScript. Async, Unicode, floating point division. Move fast and break things. No one way to do things, it's however you want!

I had to explain python deployments to a novice the other day. What a nightmare.

Python 3.5 to 3.8 just kept drastically changing things. My first experience wasn't pleasant, and for the first time I needed virtual environments and custom apt repositories to install multiple versions of python.

But it finally seems things have settled a bit. Here's hoping the Python cultural revolution settles down, and stops trying to be a trendy language, and instead a dependable one.