while rails is great, its comparative advantage has wanned a lot over the verses since it first came out. Its biggest competitors were spring and zend framework (also hunchentoot if you're THAT kind of guy). compared to those, ruby was a breath of fresh air.
Nowadays it has to compete with nodejs, phoenix framework, django and laravel. all of which are within 80% of developer productivity while being vastly more performant. I use phoenix framework myself and while I wish there were more packages available, developer productivity is good enough and we can get away with far less machines to do the job.
Nowadays it has to compete with nodejs, phoenix framework, django and laravel. all of which are within 80% of developer productivity while being vastly more performant. I use phoenix framework myself and while I wish there were more packages available, developer productivity is good enough and we can get away with far less machines to do the job.