[nicoburns]

Unfortunately Sails is nowhere near as good as Rails. Which is kind of strange given the size of the JavaScript community, and the fact that PHP has Laravel and Python has Django, both of which are comparable to Rails.

Amusingly given all the PHP hate, if you want a faster rails-like framework, Laravel might be your best bet.

[pmontra]

I don't know anything about Laravel but I've been working with Rails since 2006 and with Django since 2016. Django has little to do with Rails. It's much more similar to Java Struts from 2005 (when I left it for Rails), form objects and template tags among the other nuisances. No XML thanks god, but a weak deployment story (no Capistrano or Mina, I built my own tool). I'd pick Django over Struts without thinking (I don't do Java anymore, even with morr modern frameworks), but I pick Rails over Django any time customers give me the choice. Django (and Struts) are optimized for large projects at the cost of developer time but very few projects grow even to medium sized. Django has a decent admin tool. That's the only advantage I can think it has over Rails for the typical project I do. I also worked with Phoenix (Elixir) in the last 12 months. It's kind of midway between Rails and Django in terms of framework and language complexity.

[mikermcneil]

Have you tried Sails 1.0? (There’s always more to do, but we’re working to improve the framework a little more every day.)

[sbjs]

Awesome to see the creator of Sails here! And awesome that you have such a positive and constructive response to criticisms! I see that Sails is also a company and not just an open source project, are you a full time company living off of using your open source work? If so can you give any advice to someone who is trying to learn how to make a living with open source? I am full of energy and passion for software and want to put that towards open source, but it would be much nicer to also get paid while doing so!