To some degree, this is a question of time. You may think of Rails as a monolith that developed all its own technology, but really it’s a framework that’s been

To some degree, this is a question of time. You may think of Rails as a monolith that developed all its own technology, but really it’s a framework that’s been around for a while and done a good deal of absorbing good ideas and composing existing libraries. - Rails controllers and plug-in architecture come from MERB (absorbed for Rails 3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merb - ERB templates, the default for Rails view layer, have been in the Ruby standard library since at least 2007 (which is as far back as the docs go) - Rails adopted Rack web server interface and the first versions of the asset pipeline in 2.3, neither of those were written by Rails community. Rails 1 was released in 2004, almost 10 years after the release of Ruby in 1995. Node was released in 2009 - so maybe one of the frameworks mentioned here —- Next.js /Blitzjs, Nest, Meteor, Redwood —- could be a Rails 1.0 or 2.0. Give them another 5 years or so to mature and then you’ll have your Rails. Personally, I’ve been trying out Blitz and it seems pretty good, feels like a Rails 2ish kind of thing, where you can do a lot of stuff by following convention but can’t “plug in” as deeply as with Rails 3+.