This is really cool. I’ve used a number of languages and dabbled in a few frameworks but nothing I’ve used brings me joy like ruby does.
I approach programming creatively. I think in large systems and architecture. Ruby allows me to skip worrying about the details. Code blocks abstract away thinking about loops and just focus on data. Just about every array operation I could want is there, waiting for a code block. In other languages, things don’t flow like that.
I’ve tried purely function languages and I just can’t wrap my head around them because they abstract too much.
I’ve tried python, but I end up having to deal with the mess of importing modules and having to set up loops when all I want to do is map data.
Node.js comes so close but anemic standard library and absolute mess of explicit async everywhere just gets in the way. I want to love JavaScript. :(
Then there is Rails. Nothing even comes close. The attempts to replicate it in other languages ends up missing part of what makes it so great. I’m sad about the move to mounds of JavaScript. Nothing can match the productivity of simple_form and bootstrap.
My entire career has been in Ruby on Rails. I hope improvements to Ruby can keep it relevant. If not, I suppose JavaScript will do.
> I’m sad about the move to mounds of JavaScript. Nothing can match the productivity of simple_form and bootstrap.
You might like some of the recent Rails 7 previews. I believe they’re removing Webpack out of the box and trying to simplify things on that end[0].
[0] https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2021/9/15/Rails-7-0-alpha-1-r...
to me, this is what makes the upcoming rails 7 release really exciting: no more node, npm, webpack, & yarn! all that js tooling complexity thrown right out the window, replaced with the much simpler set of es6 modules, turbo & stimulus (and maybe strada too).
The Achilles Heel of Hotwire apps has previously been the low number of supported websocket connections and high memory usage when using ActionCable and Puma but I have high hopes that Falcon[1] will take care of that.
That along with Github's View Components[2] and Tailwind make me really please with the way Rails is heading right now.