On: Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

[chiefalchemist]

> The two are equivalent in most cases.

Yes and no. The most elegant technology solution in the world does mean squat if it doesn't solve the problem the client / user needs solved.

Technology and solution are not the same thing.

[ryanbrunner → chiefalchemist]

Sure, but the choice of language is rarely a factor in this, barring very specialized subdomains where library support is limited to a few languages. There's very few web applications that couldn't have been written in virtually any modern language.