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RoR was cool way back when, but these days I'm much happier using nodejs with a framework like Adonis

• zilti 3y ago
  I don't get people who voluntarily use JS outside a browser. I'd rather jump into a pit filled with rusty spikes.
  • rfw300 3y ago
    That’s fair, but TypeScript coupled with modern JS dev tooling makes it actually a pretty palatable experience these days. Speaking as someone who used to want to jump into pits for JavaScript-related reasons.
    • peteforde 3y ago
      Isn't that the difference, though? People who legitimately love Rails because of how productive they are, versus "pretty palatable". It's wild how people insist on using less-good tooling because that's what they've heard they are supposed to do... and that that's as good as they are going to get. It's not!
• tomca32 3y ago
  Ooof...I'm not honestly. I don't do Rails that much these days but when I do it's just crazy how productive I can be. I think it's still a great fit for a huge number of web applications. If performance is very important there are better options like Rust or Go, but otherwise RoR is my go to. Pretty much everything you need is baked into the framework and it's still being actively developed. Some of the new stuff is pretty great like Turbo frames and streams. I respect that you enjoy working in Nodejs but Nodejs frameworks are just so barebones in my experience. I haven't tried Adonis but I still remember when I was looking how to parse query params in Koa. The official docs said to use a third party lib or regex them yourself from the request string...like why would I even use a framework at that point?
• wkjagt 3y ago
  I'm actually really excited about the direction Rails is going in. It's like it's shedding some of the complexity that was accumulated over the years in favor of things I can finally understand again.