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> I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.

As you say,

> Network effects did the rest.

In an alternate set of universes, Ruby has Python's current position, and you are wondering why Python didn't take off. (But I suspect Ruby evolved fairly differently in those cases.) The universes where both are popular are much rarer.





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