I was quite happy to walk away from the Ruby on Rails world 4 or 5 years ago. I basically escaped before the onslaught of Rails 3.0 and what came next. I think

I was quite happy to walk away from the Ruby on Rails world 4 or 5 years ago. I basically escaped before the onslaught of Rails 3.0 and what came next. I think somewhere around the adoption of coffee script I got pretty concerned. While at Google I became aware of Go and what that looked like at scale. I would highly recommend trying out Go. I think the simplicity will be a refreshing change but there will also be some familiarity coming from the Ruby/C world, can't quite pinpoint why but just feels that way. And if you're looking for frameworks, shameless plug, I'm working on this https://github.com/micro/micro https://github.com/micro/micro.