Dynamically-typed scripting languages like Ruby and Python are well suited to a lot of the kinds of patterns used by the "easy" web frameworks. Once you get

Dynamically-typed scripting languages like Ruby and Python are well suited to a lot of the kinds of patterns used by the "easy" web frameworks. Once you get into a statically typed, compiled language, the language itself is oriented towards up-front formality which make various "convention-oriented" patterns awkward and ill-fitting to the language.