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I probably won't use it again in any projects, but I liked the video because of nostalgia. Rails is a memory of a fun and scrappier me, a different time, approp

I probably won't use it again in any projects, but I liked the video because of nostalgia. Rails is a memory of a fun and scrappier me, a different time, appropriate in its own light for my path at the time.

DoesntMatter22 3y ago
After doing lots of Node and Go I've recently come back to Rails and, no joke, it's about 5x faster in development for me. So many niceties. Using Prisma I had a 25 line method (and no real models) and that went down to 3 lines in Rails. It's just a night and day difference. I won't leave Rails again.
- swlkr 3y ago
  Rails really is the premiere framework for web development speed
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  I couldn't have said it better, its impressive how much you are able to do through Rails in such a short time.
Vayl 3y ago
Why wouldn't you use it again and what would you use instead?
- mplewis 3y ago
  Governance seems more invested in making ideological changes (dropping Webpacker, TypeScript, breaking changes between versions that add busywork but no value) than building the community and expanding reach. DHH continues to push poor technical decisions and alienate contributors by taking weird political stands. As someone who’s taken multiple projects to production in Rails and generally loves Ruby, these days I prefer to start new projects in full-stack TypeScript. RedwoodJS has been quite good.
  - whitepoplar 3y ago
    Which of DHH's technical decisions would you consider poor?
    - awwaiid 3y ago
      Just a guess -- probably the ones mentioned such as dropping webpacker, typescript