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Re: StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails

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So in your opinion in Java land resources are always leaked when some exception occurs? That’s a bit far from the truth

No, I think the point was that you would have be aware of these types of cases - and cleaning up after exceptions isn't the only one - and deal with it in your code. Maybe it's trivial to do in Java, but still it has to be done. Whereas with Elixir, it's handled by the way failed processes are handled which is to just "let it die". Another one will come along and replace it. (I'm greatly simplifying here)

My point was more: The way to handle resource cleanup is "let it die".

Re: StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails

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To me, this looks like one of the few real ways out of the madness that is modern frontend development. Excited to see the approach gaining adoption!

I don’t think this holds up anymore. Tooling has come so far. I have never in my life been as productive as I am inside of a Vue/Tailwind code base at this point. One of my clients is a fairly vanilla Rails 4 app (which is arguably a friendly place to be - although slow) and it’s not even close. I miss Vue and having a full “app” environment on the front-end side constantly. Jumping back and forth between these proje…

I would give up my entire salary to be able server render views again. It is more than twice as efficient.
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