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Exactly. more than 5 years ago or so I used a lot of Rails (and have worked with Java/C++ before), but after switching to a typed language like Go on large projects I completely removed Rails from my future projects.

The Ruby/Rails magic feels like its not worth it for long-term or even short-term maintenance.

I love type languages to the point Typscript is unacceptable. But Elixir/Phoenix has so many nice things to to point that an unsound static type is far inferior.

> Rails is faster for building an MVP. But it's significantly worse than a project built with a typed language when it comes to extending and maintaining.

I'm not sure that the academic work on software engineering really bares this out. Th Static vs. Dynamic debate is far from settled and increasingly looks to me like a matter of preference.

>make a column in the DB to no longer allow NULL values, and we are immediately notified by the TypeScript

Can you elaborate on this? Is this using something like knex/objection or something else?

Is there something that will do this if one is using mostly raw sql with knex?

Prisma does the heavy lifting on our project:

https://www.prisma.io

I don't have experience with Knex so I, unfortunately, don't have an answer to your question.