> ASP.NET MVC as uncool as that might be. IMO this is as close to the benefits of Rails you can get in a statically typed language. I agree .NET MVC is as clos

> ASP.NET MVC as uncool as that might be. IMO this is as close to the benefits of Rails you can get in a statically typed language. I agree .NET MVC is as close as you get to something like Rails with regards to productivity in a statically typed, enterprisy language. But using .NET/C# at Github would still have ended up with a significantly larger codebase -- which means more code to maintain, and therefore also in all likelyhood more bugs.