1. WordPress was released in 2003, Netscape Navigator was basically dead by then. 2. It’s fair to judge a language by its dominant platform / use case. Rails (

1. WordPress was released in 2003, Netscape Navigator was basically dead by then. 2. It’s fair to judge a language by its dominant platform / use case. Rails (2004) and Django (2005) are barely younger than WordPress. Is it fair to judge Ruby and (one facet of) Python by examining Rails and Django respectively? Yes.