Critical arguments are welcome but baseless ones are always challenged. Saying Rails isn't a serious framework discredits the billions of dollars in valuations

Critical arguments are welcome but baseless ones are always challenged. Saying Rails isn't a serious framework discredits the billions of dollars in valuations of companies using it in production today. Even Rails itself is backed by 37signals (now Basecamp), a for-profit company with serious problems that needs serious solutions for its widely popular product. Does Rails win in every technical aspect against other frameworks? Of course not, we all admit it has its flaws. But what it wins at it is developer productivity, getting shit done, and getting new developers up to speed. It does enough to enable a startup to get off the ground and become a million or even billion dollar company. That in itself makes it serious enough.