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chiefalchemist on Aug 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

> The two are equivalent in most cases.

Yes and no. The most elegant technology solution in the world does mean squat if it doesn't solve the problem the client / user needs solved.

Technology and solution are not the same thing.

ryanbrunner on Aug 28, 2018 [–]

Sure, but the choice of language is rarely a factor in this, barring very specialized subdomains where library support is limited to a few languages. There's very few web applications that couldn't have been written in virtually any modern language.

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