"think how easy Rails was in 2006" There is your answer! But for anyone with a decent amount of programming experience in a mainstream high level language lik

"think how easy Rails was in 2006" There is your answer! But for anyone with a decent amount of programming experience in a mainstream high level language like C# / Java / JS / Python / Ruby etc. it's probably best to stick to your own language and pick it's stack, if it is dev speed you are after. Some might be easier to set up than others, but there are plenty of example github repos you can clone to get started anyway. For (what I'll call.. sue me) "systems" languages C, C++, Haskell, Rust, GO etc, I'd probably move over to one of the mainstream stacks for getting things done fast, as they will have a better ecosystem. Also if you already know one of those languages you can easily work with the mainstream ones!