I actually disagree that it's suspicious. I think there are often trends in programming that despite being touted as newer, better, and faster have failed to deliver on that. Ala the amazing amount of churn in JS frameworks in the earlier years of SPA's and such. An article saying y'know what "X is actually good enough" isn't any more suspicious than all the articles saying "Y is the new hot thing".

I am biased here because with respect to the products that I've helped create the speed of ruby vs js, python, etc. has never been a dealbreaker.

Even if porting an entire application wasn't a nightmare, why would you ever do it unless your organization was going to fail without? Porting entire applications needs to be justified by some critical requirement that (in this case) ruby/rails isn't meeting.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... -- Porting an entire application into a new language can easily be a rewrite and not a "port".