It's optimized for the happiness of the person who throws together an app in a month, sprays tech debt and monkeypatches everywhere, and then leaves everyone el

It's optimized for the happiness of the person who throws together an app in a month, sprays tech debt and monkeypatches everywhere, and then leaves everyone else to pickup the check. There's lots of old, broken shit in the Ruby ecosystem and stuff is constantly breaking because of churn and the lack of meaningful, accessible gradual/static typing. (Elixir roughly in the same boats above.) It also doesn't help that some of the gatekeepers of Rails/Ruby have megalomaniac, reactive personalities who make interacting with them sheer misery and CWOT. If you want what looks like Ruby compiled, there's Crystal. Go and Rust backend frameworks exist also.