Rails is still fine and appropriately boring (in a good way). Its issues are well known by now, and it’s pleasant to work with for backend CRUD work. What TFA

Rails is still fine and appropriately boring (in a good way). Its issues are well known by now, and it’s pleasant to work with for backend CRUD work. What TFA really appears to be writing about is that doing backend work in nodejs is a subpar experience. I have little trouble believing that. A more interesting comparison would be to Django (my gut feeling is that Rails compares favorably here), Phoenix (a different set of choices about how opinionated to be on the data model, different base language with some significant and relevant advantages), and other frameworks that one would deliberately learn to replace Rails.