I think two of these are valid points, except I'm not sure what idiosyncrasies you mean, or what the rails dogmas are. If you are a lisp person, I can understan

I think two of these are valid points, except I'm not sure what idiosyncrasies you mean, or what the rails dogmas are. If you are a lisp person, I can understand why the syntax irks you. I think a strong criticism is (was) a lack of strong typing. These days editors can read your type annotations. They aren't as awesome as python typing, though.