Your comment comes across as narrow-minded and frankly, a bit arrogant. It is just so dismissive. Rails&#x27;s original popularity came from developers fleeing the excessive ceremony and boilerplate code of enterprise Java – and .NET to some extent.<p>Sure, there are some inexperienced (or simply bad) developers in the Rails community, just as there are in every community. But most of the Rails developers I&#x27;ve met also have experience in at least one other major web stack. They&#x27;re not chasing &quot;shiny magic features&quot;. They&#x27;re chasing productivity.<p>For me personally, Rails offers greater productivity than any other web framework I&#x27;ve used. The truth is Ruby has little to do with that, as much as I happen to like the language. I could go on for quite a while about why I feel Rails offers the best productivity, but it boils down to two main points: the entire Rails community is focused on building web applications, and the Rails core team is mostly comprised of people actually building web applications. Features get added because they&#x27;re needed. Common frictions get ironed out.<p>Rails isn&#x27;t about &quot;magic&quot;. Rails is about getting shit done, quickly and mostly-cleanly.