With all of this praise Rails is getting, even still in 2024, it’s mind boggling how there was never a successful Rails alternative in one of today’s popular web programming languages. Nothing ever caught on.
There are several comments ITT that explain how far behing Django is. As for Laravel, I personally don't know anyone starting a project in PHP in 2024 unless there's a strong legacy reason to do it
Everyone who got tired of Ruby and Rails during its hype years has since moved on to various other technologies, now most of the people who are still working on Rails are the people who agree with its design choices, which explains the amount of praise it gets.
IMHO the major upsides of Rails were subsequently adopted by almost all major frameworks in other languages. It may not be sexy or make HN front page a lot, but Spring Boot definitely "caught on", for example.
