We still use Rails and it's a good fit for getting projects off the ground quickly and validating ideas. It's a niche but it's an important niche. Once Rails p

We still use Rails and it's a good fit for getting projects off the ground quickly and validating ideas. It's a niche but it's an important niche. Once Rails projects get beyond a certain size though they start getting exponentially more difficult to maintain. My sense is that Node is going to surpass Rails by sheer brute force eventually. When I work in JS now I'm just amazed at how much better the tooling and performance is than Ruby and ES6/7 is overall a pretty nice language to work with. And having something like Typescript is essential once a codebase gets big enough.