Longtime favorite for web development falls to 30th in the Tiobe index of language popularity. ‘There is no need for Ruby ...

Java is down a bit while Python continues to shine in this month’s Tiobe language index, which measures popularity based on language searches in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.

Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

To me, the python stacks always felt like hackjobs, and RoR is definately still immature (that's good and bad).<BR><BR>In the end it's a choice between learning ruby, python, or php as languages, ...