My two guesses: - more job opportunity at higher billing rates for Rails - it's easy to hate on smug people, unless you're on their team I'm perfectly happy

My two guesses: - more job opportunity at higher billing rates for Rails - it's easy to hate on smug people, unless you're on their team I'm perfectly happy with Rails, because we've now invoiced several million dollars on cool projects that we never would have worked on had we stuck to [in our case, .NET].