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This reminds me of what people said when Rails was the new hotness, only the Rubyists were on the other end of it.

All the Java devs and the Pythonistas were calling us late to the game and slow. The simple fact is, people enjoyed Rails more than what they had to offer at the time, so it grew and became what you see today. The fact that something is possible in two environments doesn't mean it's equally enjoyable in both. Never discount the impact that love can have on a project.




I'd say that Rails made it much more quick to get started with web development than Java and Python did at the time, maybe. Certainly, I could do the same things with PHP as I could with the new hotness that was Rails, but I did it much more quickly with Rails and I ended up with nicer code. Node.js hasn't helped me in a similar way, but maybe I'm missing something.


I agree. People who are both afraid and little lazy to learn new stuff.




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