Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more
I see a lot of pro-Erlang&#x2F;Phoenix pushing in here, which is (as a polite reminder) an announcement about the rails framework. Not to say that one shouldn&#x27;t, just that I think it&#x27;s deviating from the main topic in hand. Interestingly, I wanted to find out what&#x27;s the real reason behind these pushes towards Erlang&#x2F;Phoenix and I realised the discussion is mostly around how you can save a few bucks worth $20-50 by opting for a faster programming language.<p>Any framework can be tuned to do anything. Rails right now is the only truly comprehensive framework with tight integrations to Coffee, LESS, CSS, etc. As someone who is writing his own framework in Scala, I learned this the hard way after under-estimating how much of work is already done for you in Rails.<p>If you run a business, then all this small talk shouldn&#x27;t matter as much as how profitable you are. In the end, if your business failed because of your choice of framework (which usually reflects your philosophy), then you need to fix your business model and not the framework.<p>As a polite reminder, I&#x27;d like to link to an old comment of mine I made at the time of Rails 4.2:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8201244" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8201244</a><p>Have a great weekend everyone!