Looking at the new Hotwire stuff. It’s neat from a technical perspective but looks dreadful to me. Why double down on a sloppy backend language when hardly any of the needed logic for a web application is backend? Especially when the alternatives include a full stack of TypeScript, a robust, performant, strongly typed, fantastically tooled language?

I was an RoR developer for a decade. These code bases do not age well. The test requirements of loosely typed languages are so much greater. The lack of ability to automate refactors alone is enough to avoid ruby.