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Marten Veldthuis was already well underway with a .NET version of Rails before he stopped to give the real thing a second try. Here's his conclusion after giving it a proper look:

So my experience has been overwhelmingly positive, and I can only recommend everybody with doubts to just try it (and try it seriously… start work on a real project, instead of doing only two steps beyond the basic weblog demo like I did initially).

I'm thrilled to see that Martin is coming over to the existing Rails community instead of making a language fork. Glad to have you on board! No doubt, the speed of development helped Martin make the switch:

From the moment I started, I’ve been doing the cycle “look up stuff, program stuff". However, this cycle does not seem to slow me down, I’ve been working at nearly the same speed I used to be at on ASP.NET/C#.

Consider how fast you'll be able to go when you got a week or two of experience under your belt. Then consider how fast you'll be able to go in a month. Then in three months. Rails makes you go fast really quickly and then keeps on accelerating.

Oh, his adventures with Ruby on Rails have even inspired Martin to think thoughts of FreeBSD, Apache, and MySQL as a replacement for his Windows 2003 with IIS/MSSQL. Add to that, he's getting an Apple laptop as well. I couldn't think of a nicer ride out of Redmond.