Comment by kayo_20211030

Any language/library needs to communicate in two directions: to the machine and to the people. At the micro-level, machines work with bits, or voltages, or whatever. That's a technological problem, not easy, but tractable in a mechanical sense.

People, on the other hand, work with ideas, metaphors, expressions of intent, etc. If a language/library makes the communication of those things easier/better/faster; if it can be "written down" clearly, and "read" clearly by a person, then does it really matter into which taxonomic category it fits? We pick horses for courses. That seems about right.

If Rails works for you, is complementary with what you want to achieve, is an accelerator, and is generally well-understood by the people with whom you work, then use it. Alternatively, if the answer to all the previous is Stanza then go with that. There's less "right" and "wrong" in those decisions than there is "advance", or "struggle". It sounds trite. But, use what works. If something doesn't work make something that does, iff that's the most efficient approach.