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This is a great point, and something that I think of often as someone who has been building rails apps for almost 20 years. Once MSRK has gotten "good enough"
by rsanheim 4y ago
This is a great point, and something that I think of often as someone who has been building rails apps for almost 20 years.
Once MSRK has gotten "good enough" for whatever Basecamp needs and DHH has moved on, how many other folks with the dedication and skills will help take over when maintenance and weird edge cases surface?
So far the rails community has been strong enough where this _usually_ isn't an issue, but it definitely is a real concern. You can see the impact of this in some of the recent asset bundling solutions DHH spiked out and then mostly left to the community, where things like js-bundling and css-bundling are close but not completely solid for a bunch of use cases.
- hokumguru 4y agoI mean isn’t that most open source software? Company releases a tool but only maintains it for themselves, sometimes working with the community to update it.