"What you’re failing to realize is how trivial most apps are and how fast fully functional back ends can be created with frameworks in those languages (django/r

"What you’re failing to realize is how trivial most apps are and how fast fully functional back ends can be created with frameworks in those languages (django/rails)." Sorry but I have the exact opposite experience. First of all I would not call line of business applications incredibly simple. They're rather quite complex business rule wise. I saw floors filled with web developers constantly writing /rewriting endless stream of scripts often without any meaningful attempts to organize the code. In one example I was writing Python (yes guilty it is good for this type of tasks) scripts to process literally thousands of files of their source code to find and properly replace database access methods of which single app had not less then 5. Ability to maintain code is entirely up to how well organized and documented it is. It has nothing to do with “scripting” This I can 100% agree with