I'm using Sinatra et al for my thesis project, for a Master's in Latin, and minimizing the non-interesting bits of infrastructure helps a lot. It's interesting

I'm using Sinatra et al for my thesis project, for a Master's in Latin, and minimizing the non-interesting bits of infrastructure helps a lot. It's interesting to me for the same reason PHP is interesting: it helped me wrap an HTTP interface over an executable in Ada with its own homegrown database, and (sociologically) it's a social commentary on the bits of plumbing we've agreed upon as useful.