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There's still nothing to beat RoR in terms of productivity and lines of code.

I'm happy to switch to another full stack framework if I can see a clear benefit but as yet nothing comes close.

As someone who first used Rails on the very day it was open sourced, built many Rails applications over the years, worked with other technologies in the meantime, and have recently returned to working on a Rails app I have been somewhat disappointed about the productivity compared to what I became used to.

If all you have is a plain old text editor, you may still have a point, but I feel like the time-saving tooling (static analysis, etc.) in other systems have improved considerably over the years and the Ruby/Rails ecosystem hasn't kept up nearly as well.

Check out Elixir/Phoenix Framework. It is supposed to be by ex-RoR people.

Elixir/Phoenix is not what I would consider a step forward, or something to jump over to. While perhaps technically you can put more load on it - you sacrifice a lot of syntax, approachability and general developer happiness that you get with Rails. Tradeoffs I am not willing to make given the rails stack is more than fast enough.

Elixir hasn't really made its presence felt in the job market yet so it's too early to bet on.

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