>because they knew Ruby If the only language I know is Visual Basic should I code my web stack in Visual Basic and deploy it to Microsoft Azure? A surefire wa

>because they knew Ruby If the only language I know is Visual Basic should I code my web stack in Visual Basic and deploy it to Microsoft Azure? A surefire way to tell if a developer is lazy(and not in the good way) and takes little pride in their work is if they show an interest in a platform or language solely because its in a language they are familiar with, instead of picking tools that are the best for the job at hand. I mean this reasonably of course, if your app is a reasonably good fit for Ruby and you're familiar with Ruby more power to you. I just don't understand companies developing odd domain specific/specialized software in languages and platforms not meant for it and then complaining that it runs too slow. Something I'm also unsure of is why almost every company these days seems to be choosing Rails to build on. It doesn't seem to be that they are just picking the language which has the largest available pool of developers available; from what I've read Ruby as a language was completely obscure until Rails came along, and even now isn't used much outside of Rails and the occasional script. Python is really popular and used in many domains ranging from web to scientific computing to interfaces for stuff like Arduinos and has a batteries-included de-facto web framework, Django, so I would imagine there were more Python programmers available, but you see far fewer companies using a Python stack. Java also has lots of battle tested web systems and there is a sea of cheap Java developers(might as well hire a cheap dev if your initial product is going to be a rushed piece of shit), though it is verbose, has a longer dev cycle, and is considered to be for the enterprise type businesses run by Wall Street fat cats everyone is trying to "disrupt". Is it because Rails is just trendy, or some other reason?