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I've been developing apps with Rails since it was announced. It's been an amazing tool/toolchain, providing a very useful level of abstraction that allows rapi

I've been developing apps with Rails since it was announced. It's been an amazing tool/toolchain, providing a very useful level of abstraction that allows rapid development. Recently, I've been doing a lot of Go (Golang) development. For me, it's sort of the anti-Ruby-Rails. I really like the fact that it requires me to "roll my own" in so many situations. I need to understand what's happening under the hood to make things work. But, the abstraction/magic of Rails is useful. Speed to market with trustable, battle tested magic is a profitable proposition. I want to introduce Golang into my current project, but I haven't quite found the right place for it yet. Rails makes it so much easier and faster to add functionality at our scale.

pdimitar 10y ago
It might be a better sell if you try to introduce Elixir, and I am guessing its Phoenix library/framework as well. I've tinkered a bit with Golang and I love it but IMO it's too much extra work in the Web development part. It's exciting and very educational to pop the hood and understand how many things fit together, especially if you're coming from Rails, but you should be aware that after a while the novelty wears off and sooner or later you'll start looking for the quicker paths to introduce trivial Web cruft. I am yet to experiment with Elixir + Phoenix but the community feedback so far has been fantastic.