This particular blog post did a fine job articulating the benefits of Rails, and these remain good reasons to use rails in 2019. I think there's another side of

This particular blog post did a fine job articulating the benefits of Rails, and these remain good reasons to use rails in 2019. I think there's another side of this discussion. There are reasons why rails itself is worth using, and then there are reasons why MVC frameworks + a sprinkling of javascript are still worth using. Personally, I feel that the latest trend toward heavy javascript front ends that are more or less detached from the middle tier or back end has led to a wildly overblown, over engineered state of constant technical churn. I quit web development over this. I got involved in a project for a while, but finally decided that if I had to write javascript in these constantly changing frameworks, I didn't want to be a web developer anymore. Fortunately, I have enough of a math and engineering background and work experience that I was able to move over to writing code for answers more than for applications, though code for answers can be used as a wing of an app. I largely stay out of the framework now. But I use python, not surprisingly. Ruby is a nice language, and Rails is an excellent framework. I think that rails plus a little bit of javascript is far more productive than the javascript churn, and for a lot of apps, you give up next to nothing in terms of functionality. But if I got back into web programming, I'd probably do what I described above, but in Python. Ruby, for whatever reason, just isn't a big player in data engineering, data science, scientific programming, machine learning, all that. I haven't programmed in Django before, but much as I enjoyed Rails, I'd probably stick with Python at this point. Alternatively, if the javascript framework hamster wheel dwellers want to handle that mess and let me write my wing of it in python and integrate it however they please, then, uh, sure. As long as management understands that when they quit, I won't be able to maintain it. A few people tried to get me to use node, but I won't do it. I feel secure enough that the scientific programming community will not be switching over to javascript so that we can keep our programming language consistent with the shit show that is modern web development.