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I’d just like to chime in that myself and the other rails developers in my company use rails because we love it (in addition to it being the right tool for the

• hardwaresofton 8y ago
  I didn't mean to say that no one uses rails because they like it -- I fully understand that rails was not only caused a watershed moment for web development (particularly server side), especially when what came before was java in large part. Also, having survived perl I've never seen a "scripting" language handle flexible syntax/paradigms as beautifully as ruby has -- it is certainly a beautiful language. I think the increased productivity, beautiful language that rails is pushed everyone in the right direction, I just personally think stopping there is a bad idea, and that while rails is great it's not necessarily the reason it's in widespread use. I didn't see any mention in the article of comparing install rates for rails versus other platforms (since of course this info is hard to get) -- and there are tons of rails-ish software out there (django being a huge one). If django had been the thing to break through and rails came after I think the roles would simply be reversed.