[pier25]

I agree.

It's disheartening to see thousands of man-hours poured into these projects that solve a lot regarding rendering in the server and client but are nowhere close to popular backend frameworks like Rails, Laravel, and Django.

I imagine the argument is that, because these full stack frameworks are platform agnostic (Node, Deno, CF Workers, etc) they couldn't possibly cover all the backend needs for all those platforms. And of course that makes sense...

But IMO the decision to become platform agnostic is hurting more than it helps.

In part because I think people have overestimated the interest in deploying backend projects to say CF Workers. Sure you get super easy distributed compute but the real problem is distributed data which no one has solved properly yet.

And the other point is that IMHO it doesn't make sense to sacrifice the value and usefulness of a project just to offer a single feature (being platform agnostic) which is not that valuable to begin with.