[pluma]

> What? Ruby on Rails is ridiculously popular as a web framework.

This is the typical HN bias. If you ask someone on HN what framework they think is most popular, they'll likely say Rails. But is this actually true?

In comparison to, say, Django or the various node frameworks, sure, it's popular. But in comparison to the "big guys" (the various frameworks for PHP, Java, C#) it barely registers.

[yellowapple]

> But in comparison to the "big guys" (the various frameworks for PHP, Java, C#) it barely registers.

[citation needed]

[citation needed] especially for C#; the only .NET-based language I know of that registers as even a blip in web development is, for better or worse, ASP.NET.

[citation needed] also for PHP frameworks; most PHP web "applications", in my experience, don't use any sort of "framework" at all, instead opting to use CGI with direct manipulation of HTML tags in order to do anything. Facebook is the only significant exception that I'm aware of.

[dragonwriter]

> especially for C#; the only .NET-based language I know of that registers as even a blip in web development is, for better or worse, ASP.NET.

ASP.NET isn't a language, its a web framework for .NET; usually used with either C# or VB.NET.

[yellowapple]

In which case I stand corrected there (I was getting it confused with ASP/VBScript; I've tended to steer clear of either).

[MrBra]

> This is the typical HN bias.

Go check on Reddit then ? :)