The alternatives are certainly there. I'm using Sinatra almost exclusively when I'm not running on Rack directly. There are really neat complete frameworks lik

The alternatives are certainly there. I'm using Sinatra almost exclusively when I'm not running on Rack directly. There are really neat complete frameworks like hanami, padrino and grape (not sure how active they are, though) too. My point was not that "its impossible" just that compared to other languages, the Rails framework is an Elephant In The Room. Python is much larger than Pytorch, Pandas, Django or whatnot. Typescript was built for React mostly, but outgrew that rapidly. Javascript is no longer focused around on framework (like it was in jQuery times, if you consider jQuery a framework). Java-for-web often boils down to Spring, but Java is much, much more versatile than that. With Ruby? There's chef, puppet, some sinatra, capistrano and then there is ... RAILS!