Rails made Microsoft change its entire web strategy. It influenced so much. Rails is so mainstream that it doesn't get talked about like a hot new tech anymore. If you were a web developer in 2006~2016 it was still hot tech but kind of lost the plot IMO when they really started futzing around with the asset pipeline.
That’s fair, I guess I’m comparing it to how stable the controller and Active Model APIs have been. I wish Rails had taken a more hands off approach and let the frontend community plug in their own approaches to tooling instead of taking opinionated stances and then rolling them back after a while. I understand that Rails is “omakase” but I had to learn the frontend tooling, anyway, and the Rails versions are different enough to invalidate that learning.
Yes, i don't like to fight against the assets pipeline, but to be honest, I just went from Sprockets to Propshaft and never tried to use Webpacker.. you can even still use Sprockets with rails 7, so you could use the whole time, plain Sprockets and you would be doing fine.
This has been so deeply politicized in Illinois the last gubernatorial candidates for the Republicans have propagandized the subject so fiercely in Illinois that nuanced debate is nearly impossible. I say this as a person who lives outside Chicago in the same region as one of those rightwing candidates and between McHenry Times rag and the absurd signage leading up to the election it was exhausting and consistenly done in bad faith. This article is an opinion on a right wing bias site that is promoting a key right wing political talking point, so no I do not trust that OP is even working in good faith. This isn't HN, this is something else.
This has been so deeply politicized in Illinois the last gubernatorial candidates for the Republicans have propagandized the subject so fiercely in Illinois that nuanced debate is nearly impossible. I say this as a person who lives outside Chicago in the same region as one of those rightwing candidates and between McHenry Times rag and the absurd signage leading up to the election it was exhausting and consistenly done in bad faith. This article is an opinion on a right wing bias site that is promoting a key right wing political talking point, so no I do not trust that OP is even working in good faith. This isn't HN, this is something else.
I'm dealing with this at my currently. It is a fairly large org and has good people and not so great people like any large enough group will have. What they don't have in my estimation is someone who actually knows how to engage with individual contributors in a meaningful way so struggles with issues of communication and direction, again, not atypical. I've invested into building an internal "meet up" for dev+adjacent folks to hold a weekly tech talk session, and am slowly building trust in what was a relatively low-trust environment. I do all this and some more within approximately the normal amount of working hours as if I weren't doing this with some very careful scheduling. My philosophy is that if we need to be here then might as well find a way to enjoy it and get something more than a paycheck. The effort is also slowly paying of in getting the attention of recruiting and hr, in that they are trying to learn how to engage with technology more effectively. It is slow growing but has been a joyful experience getting people to come out of their shell and give their, sometimes first, presentation at a meet up.
IME convoluted is often mistaken for clever. I've seen systems where the author was proud of how complicated their knots were but the reality was just a tangle to everyone else. Personally I guard for when I need to solve a problem but am having too much fun. It is usually a sign I'm too invested in the code than the goal, it helps me write but my next goal will be to edit it so future me won't say such awful things about now me.
No. Getting too cumbersome for my preference but I haven't learned a good enough alternative to invest learning. Bias is I made the switch to Ruby well-over a decade ago and it is still useful, fun to write in, and pays the bills.
Looking at that I am still wondering how it got there. That isn't something that just happens, someone wrote that code and that means someone put some thought into it. I am not saying it can't possibly be irrelevant but it isn't nothing either.
They walked away from a 6B acquisition by Google. They did believe the sky was the limit. I was not in the specific meetings but was there for everything around it. There was a sense of optimism no matter how naive it was in hindsight.
I was a developer at Groupon in that early era and remember IPO day. I am literally wearing the IPO shirt as a pajama top right now and stumbled on this. It was such an interesting and exciting place to be at the time. I still miss those days when the Chicago developer scene was so active and fun.
