How can one say "Rails won"? It's not like people will stop making web frameworks. Like any other software it will eventually be made obsolete by something newer and better.
Maybe I am just nitpicking.
Now, that doesn't apply to any language other than Ruby. But this post might well be aimed at Rubyists exclusively.
as a nodejs dev, it is super annoying managing the asynchornicity of node and the horrifying dependencies. I suppose rails had stability issues as well. If you read rails is a ghetto by zed shaw, it is interesting (albeit super biased) look at how and why rails developed.
edit: As noted, elixir isn't comparable to rails the framework in that arena is phoenix which is similar (at least in function). Thanks!.
Edit: I don't mean comparable as similar per se, but that one set are languages and the other are web frameworks
Hilarious! :D
It's become what J2EE was when Rails was new. Decades from now, even if it's completely fallen out of favor for new development, there'll be people getting paid handsomely to maintain legacy Rails apps. It's won an important spot in history.
But technology moves on. And just as the Java stack dominant when Rails emerged has lost ground to Rails, other non-Java stacks, and even newer Java stacks, is wire likely Rails will lose ground to other Ruby and non-Ruby stacks.