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Our agency most mostly does SaaS apps.

We use Rails and React.

We tried Go for backend but Go is missing ActiveRecorss, payment gateway libraries, etc...

Where is migration management like sqlachemy or activ records?

For building SaaS product i think you should choose Rails.

It takes only few minutes to creare subscription billling, team accounts, invoice etc.. functionality.

I would like to know what you guys use.

Well, the comparison is not really fair, Rails is a framework for building webapp, whereas Go is a language with a standard library.

To simplify a bit: Go is in the same bag as C++/C#/Java, Rails is in the same bag as PHP & [Symfony/Laravel].

If you're mass building CRUD web applications against customers requirements then, clearly, RoR is the best tool for the job (versus Golang).

> Go is in the same bag as C++/C#/Java, Rails is in the same bag as PHP & [Symfony/Laravel].

Go is in the same bag as C++/C#/Java/Ruby/PHP (languages)

Rails is in the same bag as Symfony/Laravel (frameworks)

I literally said 'Rails is a framework for building webapp, whereas Go is a language with a standard library'. what's your point?

Ruby is a language distinct from the Rails framework.

PHP is a language distinct from the other frameworks listed.

Small nitpick, but I always hate to see conflation of languages and frameworks when making comparisons.

For the record, I was not confusing anything here, it was you thinking that I was first listing languages then frameworks, which was not the case.

They moved PHP from framework to language, it’s a small nit but worth picking I suppose.