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I'm using rails for my company but ruby is definitely not my preferred language. Blocks/Procs/Lambdas (why are there three almost identical constructs?) definitely don't compare to function application / currying. I'd much rather write in F# but I'm worried about all the nice to haves that come with the rails stack, like capistrano or the plugins to serve/upload your assets to S3. (e.g. ASP.NET has HAML but not sass)

I definitely foresee at some point switching to ASP.NET in a similar manner as twitter is moving over to the JVM / Scala, but rails still has a lot of legs in it for us.



> (e.g. ASP.NET has HAML but not sass)

I fixed that this past weekend :)

http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2011/05/16/announcing-sa...


You rock! You've tempted me to start using F# / ASP.NET MVC again.


This rocks. I'm going to check this out when I get to work. Thanks!




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