Well, I do not why so late, but I started to have feeling that there is something strange with PHP these days (especialy release 5.2). And I decided to take a look at other scripting languages. I had some previous experiences with languages like Perl and Ruby, but not Python (except a basic syntax knowledge from modifying Planet etc)… I did some research on current state of two languages – Python and Ruby. My usual needs for programming language are as follows:

• Design of language
• Performance
• Productivity
• Comunity/Support

Fist I took a look at Ruby, because I had a previous experience from my work (we used Ruby for generation of Java SWT forms source code, because there was not any good IDE for it). Ruby is really beutiful language but I ended up with performance. It really needs some tunning of Ruby implementation using byte code precomplation . But language itself is cool. I will give it a try later, because through that I am not fully performance guy, it was really much slower than Java or Python.

So… Yes I decided to try Python. Holy grail! Throught I am now at the stage of exploring and playing, I have to say that from performance point of view Python is much faster than Ruby… Conclusion for me is that I will continue playing with Python with an eye on Ruby implementation and its performance.