HN Explorer

Ask HN: What Is the Future of Rails?

2 points by 3dsnano ↗ HN
we have built a huge rails app

we have seen our contemporaries build software across different industries, and with different technologies. react, javascript and microservices, multiple layers of complexity, k8s, and shit.

rails has allowed our hivemind to test a whole bucket full of risky assumptions quickly. i wouldn't even know where to begin if i were to start with something new

i got my start hacking on wordpress and made it do a whole ton of things it was never designed to do. then i learned rails and it helped me understand ruby, which is such a cool and fun language.

perhaps tools don't matter as much as the value or outcomes you can create. ruby and rails have worked for me but i dunno if i was getting started now if i would have ever considered starting with rails.

what is the inevitable of rubists and rails folk? with AI writing code and shit, is there a future where it makes sense to continue to learn rails? who knows? why do anything???? thanks

have i plateaued? how does rails die?

5 comments

[ 0.16 ms ] story [ 135 ms ] thread
Daishiman
AI writing code has zilch to do with anything, as no piece of non-trivial business software can currently be written by AI.

None of the new frameworks developed in the past 10 years do anything to improve developer productivity over what people already have with Django, Rails, and Laravel.

We're a fad-driven industry and most people can't tell productive work from their ass.

[deleted]
(comment deleted)
0xblinq
But if I use rails then what about serverless graphql isomorphic server rendered 80% faster 37% lighter 128% more stable next.js multipage SPAs? How can you do anything without that???
catlover76
If you like writing Ruby on Rails, then good, keep doing it. People are. I believe it still works. What's the big deal?

Obviously, people use JavaScript (whether with React, or with another framework, or without any framework), deploy micro-services, use Kubernetes, etc., with their Rails applications, so I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say with that part.

weatherlite
> what is the inevitable of rubists and rails folk?

Eventually they will all die that one seems inevitable