Bruce Tate on Seaside

In an interview by Yakov Fain, a well know proponent of Ruby Bruce Tate had this to say about Smalltalk with Seaside,

I’m interested in Ruby, and a whole lot of other people are in this camp too, because it’s a dynamic language with a catalyst. Other languages have better web development experiences–Seaside on Smalltalk, for example. But Rails has traction, and the combination of productivity in a clean language with good market share is tough to beat.

Umm, isn’t this just crowd mentality at work? If you think there’s a better way of going about web development, who cares about traction? We took a plunge back in April to go with Seaside for our new web portal and couldn’t have been happier with the progress so far.