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Rails strength isn't the speed of it's code but it's speed of development, the JVM-based service equivalent you are comparing it with probably needs 5x the amount of engineering time to build the same as what you have for free with Rails. (which also needs to be included in the engineering costs)

>>realus+(OP)
I doubt that any language gives you 5x the productivity of another language. I don't think I would be 5x slower writing a Back end web code in C than I would in C# and C is probably the worse language to do an API in.

>>scarfa+i1
It's not about the language, it's about the batteries-included mindset of rails.

You have your nice web framework in X language and then you need something else quickly is already built-in in Rails or a very powerful feature that in Rails you could just install a gem and call it a day.

I'm working with Express/Node now, I've worked with Symfony/Laravel in php, I've worked with Django in Python, I like them all but there's nothing which can truly replace the speed of coding with Rails.

>>realus+(OP)
Rails speed is speed of prototype. When you have a sufficiently large system with Rails, your development slows down. This is not just so for Rails, but languages like PHP, Python, Javascript.