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I've had this same experience bouncing back to Rails for contract gigs. You always feel this temptation like you're missing out on 'real' programming, performance with low level code or super clever languages like Haskell or Clojure. But ultimately Rails is just a great programming experience for getting the job done.

Despite it's faults and the problems with using 'magic' frameworks like Rails it's a really great language/framework for what it's meant to do. And it still is in 2017 despite what some people say (although Elixir/Phoenix is getting there if it can reach the scale of adoption as Rails).

That's the end of the road lesson, that there's the right tools for different jobs. There is no 'perfect' solution. Not rabbit to keep chasing.

Either way though it's still good to get exposure to as many different languages as possible (low level ala C, easily parallel-based languages ala Erlang, some lisps, typed languages like Haskell, dynamic FP ala clojure, etc).