> There's a good group who've been working on making essentially a Ruby to JavaScript transpiler and I've heard a lot of the pitches for it and they're like, "B

> There's a good group who've been working on making essentially a Ruby to JavaScript transpiler and I've heard a lot of the pitches for it and they're like, "But it's Ruby and like isn't that better?" And I'm like, "No, like JavaScript is great for what JavaScript does." I don't have this idea of just, like, there's the one approach to everything. The same thing, and that goes all the way back to thinking like SQL is not a bad language. Active Record has never taken the approach that like SQL is this sort of demon that needs to be exorcized. We've reduced the amount of SQL you need to write, on a regular basis, I don't write a lot of SQL, we used to write more because Active Record didn't do as much, but it's not from this perspective of like we have to eradicate it. We do the conceptual compression but, when I look at something like, Ruby to JavaScript transpiling, there's limited amounts of conceptual compression, 'cause you still have to understand the model of what it outputs into and like, it's just, it's not for me - David Heinemeier hansson