Ruby or Python for a Startup?
jamesk2: Go for the library support. I chose python because of existing functionality I needed now. Writing it from scratch would have been very time consuming.As for non-web services, Python has some good GUI tools and some workable ways to make windows apps.It also didn't hurt that google is behind python. The speedups targeted seem attainable. http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/As for finding engineers who are good at ruby or python, it's pretty slim pickings for either.