I was a Ruby early adopter - early 2001 - because I needed to move from Perl to a new scripting language (OO Perl just seemed like such a hack and there really was something to the Write Once aspect of Perl - I'd come back to a Perl program 6 months after I wrote it and wonder what the heck was going on). I took one day to play with Python. I got burned by the significant whitespace thing right away. Next day I looked at Ruby and it seemed like the perfect fit for what we were doing. Over the next dozen years or so I was a huge Ruby fan. But then around 2014 I got a different job in a Python shop. I thought I was going to have a rough time with the significant whitespace, but I ended up liking it a lot. That's not to say that I don't miss features from Ruby, but I found that I could get along fine with Python's significant whitespace.