>Why are Rails people so obsessed with accelerating the trivial?
That's easy. That's a false dichotomy. This isn't a deeply held cultural value.
>I've always felt the strength of the Python community is that it was able to let the idioms and cleanliness of Python stand for themselves while they advance of the state of the art for the work-a-day programmer.
It is a Ruby cultural value that There's More Than One Way To Do It, and that shiny things are worth chasing.
That said, I laugh in the face of your "Python cleanliness".
That's easy. That's a false dichotomy. This isn't a deeply held cultural value.
>I've always felt the strength of the Python community is that it was able to let the idioms and cleanliness of Python stand for themselves while they advance of the state of the art for the work-a-day programmer.
It is a Ruby cultural value that There's More Than One Way To Do It, and that shiny things are worth chasing.
That said, I laugh in the face of your "Python cleanliness".