What's the closest thing to Rails in a language with a sound static type system?
It’s honestly a really underrated framework, smartly designed, with probably the best ORM that exists and a great ecosystem.
Unfortunately, the documentation is painfully bad and the Getting Started guides are really boring compared to Rails or Django.
There may also be Laravel but I can’t say anything about it since I never tried it.
I have complaints about Laravel, but I think it's a lot easier to find examples, and modern PHP has static typing improvements. But I would much rather use C#
Exposed is a solid-enough ORM for my tastes, Ktor is easy-to-use and clean; and Kotlin gives me a type system and fluent / Ruby-style method chaining.