[nikon]

I picked up Rails this year after spending a long time dismissing it as a unscalable out of date framework.

It’s the fastest thing out there for shipping features. I’m building a SaaS tool, so that’s all that matters right now. I added PDF export yesterday in about 11 lines of code using Prawn.

It’s great building stuff in Go, but it’s no good sitting there in a year with 0 customers and a system that can handle 10k rps. Or stuck still building that idea and switching SPA framework or RPC library, as I often did to procrastinate launching. By not using the shiny new thing I can focus on the product.

[cknoxrun]

As a long time Rails developer, pushing products and prototypes out the door quicker than peers, it's heart-warming to see messages like yours more often on Hacker News lately.

[ulisesrmzroche]

I remember when using Rails was the hip shiny new thing and HN said: “how about we pick boring tech instead?”