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Comment by Alifatisk | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like from the comments that Rails is gaining a little bit more popularity again instead of being known as the boring robust framework

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I probably won't use it again in any projects, but I liked the video because of nostalgia. Rails is a memory of a fun and scrappier me, a different time, appropriate in its own light for my path at the time.

After doing lots of Node and Go I've recently come back to Rails and, no joke, it's about 5x faster in development for me. So many niceties. Using Prisma I had a 25 line method (and no real models) and that went down to 3 lines in Rails. It's just a night and day difference. I won't leave Rails again.

Rails really is the premiere framework for web development speed

I couldn't have said it better, its impressive how much you are able to do through Rails in such a short time.

Why wouldn't you use it again and what would you use instead?

Governance seems more invested in making ideological changes (dropping Webpacker, TypeScript, breaking changes between versions that add busywork but no value) than building the community and expanding reach. DHH continues to push poor technical decisions and alienate contributors by taking weird political stands.

As someone who’s taken multiple projects to production in Rails and generally loves Ruby, these days I prefer to start new projects in full-stack TypeScript. RedwoodJS has been quite good.

Which of DHH's technical decisions would you consider poor?

Just a guess -- probably the ones mentioned such as dropping webpacker, typescript

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