Notes from Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote by @dhh:
Fighting Complexity in the Web
- Rails 8 has been released
- Rails has been trying to follow the latest programming trends, but DHH was never satisfied with this approach
- Rails 7 and the introduction of ES6, HTTP2, and
I decided to convert all my projects to Next.js:
- Rails and Go are too tiring 😔
- Rails doesn't scale
- In Go, I wrote so many `if err != nil` statements that I can't read my code anymore
On the flip side, Next.js offers amazing speed gains and syntax clarity.