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That's not even true. Plenty of startups use the languages you mentioned.

When Rails first got released, there was a certain wow factor - it made making sites very easy. There have been plenty of web frameworks released afterwards for other languages that made it easy to spin up a new web project, but Rails has remained ahead in terms of how much mention it gets, for various reasons: first-mover advantage, its community is louder, etc.




I think the reason of rapid development is the reason of its popularity.


Except that you can develop just as fast in Python if you knew what you were doing.


Ok, but you can't develop as fast in Java or C# even if you knew what you were doing.




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