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Also the language/framework is mattering less by the day with agentic coding. Why would anyone ever choose ruby, python, etc when you don’t need to write it? These languages are undoubtedly dead as of now. Python may live on in ML for a bit but probably not much longer
Ruby has "undoubtedly" been dead for at least a decade now, or so I've heard. Glad to hear Python is undoubtedly joining the party.
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I've just started using RoR for a live greenfield project since New Year. Honestly, breath of fresh air. It's the closest I've come to that old school "in the box" desktop development experience you used to get from building desktop software with Visual Studio or IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans or Eclipse or any of the other IDEs of the 90s/00s (I never used Delphi or VB but I imagine in some sense they were even moreso th…
If you're solving problems rails is best at, it's borderline magical. The troubles arise when you get to huge codebases or complicated frontend patterns that aren't ideal for SSR / hotwire. Also, it's impossible to separate Rails from DHH, whose xenophobic politics are unfortunately front and center.
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I still really like rails. It’s really fun until your codebase reaches a certain size. At that point you better have a large suite of test which becomes a problem of it self because the tests will take forever to complete. I tried sorbet a couple of times and totally get why it’s useful but imo it’s not just lacking (e.g. compared with what can be done with TS or even a simple type system like golang) but it also rem…
Right, the test culture is very silly to me. Thousands of tests and long CI times, basically just doing a poor invention of a compiler. Dynamic types are so much extra work.