For implementing ye olde business logic, which is far more common in software development than cool tech such as ML that is discussed a disproportionally high amount compared to its real-world usage, Ruby on Rails wins. Sure, there are lots of frameworks that are good for shipping business features quickly, but Ruby on Rails is still among the leaders of that group due to concise code, magical defaults that give you a boost, an excellent ORM, view helpers for sooooo many common scenarios and edge cases that the JS world is still playing catch-up to, etc. And a lot of the new defaults in Rails 7 are aimed at reducing complexity and rescuing developers from the insanity of front-end development.

Great for CRUD, yes, but plenty more than that. Soooooo many apps don’t need to wrestle with a huge amount of data or even a data warehouse or analytics or a data lake or any data science or anything requiring even a blazing fast query time on a super complex gnarly data model, and most of those would ship faster by using Rails, and be easier to maintain as well.

But the devs don’t tell management that……