Boris Popov points to a comment from Bruce Tate:

I’m interested in Ruby, and a whole lot of other people are in this camp too, because it’s a dynamic language with a catalyst. Other languages have better web development experiences Seaside on Smalltalk, for example. But Rails has traction, and the combination of productivity in a clean language with good market share is tough to beat.

Boris asks the obvious question - are we into fashion statements, or actual delivery of working code? Boris is into the actual productivity, and says:

If you think there’s a better way of going about web development, who cares about traction? We took a plunge back in April to go with Seaside for our new web portal and couldn’t have been happier with the progress so far.

Try it for yourself and make up your own mind - don't just follow the crowd.

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