In the age of structured web APIs, the lack of types also makes generating those API services needlessly complicated. Rails was pretty nice in the days we were

In the age of structured web APIs, the lack of types also makes generating those API services needlessly complicated. Rails was pretty nice in the days we were dumping out simple HTML pages on the fly, but those days are gone for most projects. While it has certainly tried, Rails has not done a good job keeping up with the times. A lot of that falls on the limitations of Ruby.