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I love Go but Rails is just unmatched in terms of development velocity. You're right that Go eschews magic and embraces verbosity but in doing so it makes common tasks, like web development, take 10x longer than languages that do the opposite.

It's only magic if you don't know what's going on under the hood. I felt this way for the first couple of years until I figured it out (experience matters as with every other language/platform). Then there was no magic, just conventions. You can do crazy things with Ruby and people tend to do them thinking it's "cool". Just don't. Rails doesn't have many and they are pretty well documented.

No, you aren't the only one. I used RoR at its peak hype in 2009 and I wasn't impressed. Even super boilerplaty alternatives at the time (like Spring 2.x and iBatis) were a lot more manageable in my opinion. And the few good ideas from frameworks like RoR and Django have long been stolen by all ecosystems, so I don't really see the point anymore.

None of the languages you listed/prefer existed when GitHub was launched, lol.