Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

Re:Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET? by tptacek on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:12PM (#1756891)

"Lack of success on the web"? Besides the obvious "Stack Overflow, Myspace, Plenty of Fish" answer, observe that many --- perhaps over 50% --- of the largest company sites on the web are .NET, as are retail banking sites, trading firms, brokerages, etc. And, obviously, something like half of all enterprise web apps are .NET.

If that all seems like it trends corporate for you, well, that's obviously going to happen when your platform costs money.

All else being equal, would I start a new project on Microsoft's stack? No. But if I was really strong on ASP.NET and completely new to Django or Rails, I'd stick with ASP.NET. It works, it works at scale, and it's far from the hardest stack to code for. I might even suggest it's better than PHP, all else being equal.

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Re:Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET? by segy on Monday October 04, 2010 @04:47PM (#1757354)

IMO it just depends on the servers you're going to be using and who you'll be working with. I would stay away, far away from traditional ASP.NET. MVC is far better, but I would only really use it over Rails if I was working on a primarily MS stack environment.

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Re:Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET? by lovskogen on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:58AM (#1759240)

Do you think retail banking sites, trading firms, brokerages, etc. would choose .NET today?

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Re:Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET? by dasil003 on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:14PM (#1757474)

I'm talking about Microsoft's web ventures, not people building on an MS Stack.

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