But aren't Rails, Laravel and Django a bit similar? At least for the people not directly involved in coding.
It could if you added message passing to C.
Which we have, and DHH admits that Rails took directly from that. Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].
Are you talking about WebObjects, which was written in Objective-C? (1) If so your comment is somewhat tangential to the truth.
(1 2104) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765009
But aren't Rails, Laravel and Django a bit similar? At least for the people not directly involved in coding.