> We’ve been doing more and more JS/Node where I work because it’s really good at getting things done quickly, sort of similar to why you’d chose ruby and rails

> We’ve been doing more and more JS/Node where I work because it’s really good at getting things done quickly, sort of similar to why you’d chose ruby and rails I assume people make them comparisons because both ecosystems have a lot of third party libraries, which means if you want to add some functionality there’s probably a library out there for it. I don’t really feel that comparisons like this are really that accurate though (and are often made by people who don’t have experience with Rails). If you are using something like Node or Go you need to have knowledge about which libraries you need to use (bearing in mind that often changes every year or so, compared to the Ruby ecosystem which is a lot more stable) and write all the glue logic to make them work together yourself. With Rails you can literally build a blog by running a handful of commands and editing a couple of views, and have something up and running in less than 15 minutes. The beauty of Rails is that it’s opininated enough, that you can build a pretty decent application just by using what it gives you out of the box. Yes you may want to add Sidekiq for better performance of background jobs, or Devise to avoid all the repetitive code you need to handle user accounts, or add RSpec because TestUnit is the devil, but those aren’t required to get something done.