This is the only correct response. I’ve been doing this a long time, and it’s demotivating to see every new generation of noob developer turn their nose up at

This is the only correct response. I’ve been doing this a long time, and it’s demotivating to see every new generation of noob developer turn their nose up at the work of the generations before. It’s not as if Rails has stagnated - it keeps getting better with every release. You could be excused for wanting to switch from Java servlets and PHP apps back in the day, because the Rails dev experience was that much better. But all of this Javascript crap is just re-writing for the sake of re-writing. And it happened so quickly - not even six years ago, Rails was the obvious choice for a new web app. Technologically, what has changed since then? Very little. People unironically ask if Rails is “still relevant”, and then switch back to their (hideously slow, JS-based) editor to grind out spaghetti code in node, not even stopping to wonder why their NPM dependency tree has sixteen different versions of the same json module. Such a waste.