I can only present anecdotal evidence here but I do most of my freelance web dev work in Rails but turn to WordPress for web sites. I'm definitely more conversa

I can only present anecdotal evidence here but I do most of my freelance web dev work in Rails but turn to WordPress for web sites. I'm definitely more conversant in Ruby than PHP, but I think the ecosystem of the WordPress platform, plugins, and developer mindshare is a big deal for the projects' futures. That said, I don't see myself using Wordless. Aside from my personal gripes with HAML, I have some concerns about breaking WordPress and PHP conventions. Will future developers be able to continue my work? Will plugins work as expected? How about page templates? I did use SASS for a couple of themes and that worked out well enough, but I doubt I'll use it for future projects. Idiomatic code and tools are a bigger productivity boost both for myself and others. EDIT: I can see a sweet spot for this in teams that work primarily with Ruby/Rails but want to leverage WordPress on a site they maintain in the long term.