Yes, ASP.NET MVC is ASP.NET, but that neither changes, nor invalidates anything that I said.
a) Rails is an actual MVC framework.
b) ASP.NET was an over-complicated, leaky, fairly opaque abstraction for web programming.
c) It took years for MS to then come out with their own MVC framework.
a) Rails is an actual MVC framework. b) ASP.NET was an over-complicated, leaky, fairly opaque abstraction for web programming. c) It took years for MS to then come out with their own MVC framework.