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Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by gordon_freeman »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #10

Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.

I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1]

So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by willsmith72 »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #11
mostlysimilar wrote: post #10

Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.

I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1] So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?

Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by sshine »

codetrotter wrote: post #5

For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not. Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused. But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.

Without this context, I simply did not understand the post. There are too many products called threads.

Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by solardev »

jsheard wrote: post #3

For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was Thread, the IoT home automation protocol and that they were moving into Alexa-like features or something. So many different technologies with the same name :(

Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by solardev »

willsmith72 wrote: post #12
gordon_freeman wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1] So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?

Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?

Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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Post by willsmith72 »

solardev wrote: post #15
willsmith72 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?

Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?

well it depends.. remix is just the compiler, your backend is just whatever node/cloudflare/whatever framework/libraries you want. so no, it's nothing like rails in the batteries-included sense, but if someone built their server using node previously, it's the exact same using remix
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