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by incadenza 1946 days ago
This is somewhat tangential, but I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about all of the popular options for building RESTFul APIs lately. With every new entry in the ecosystem, the same libraries (authentication, migrations, logging, authorization) have to be re-implemented. In spite of all of this new stuff (Go, Node, and now Rust) I look around and don't really see how we've done any better than Rails in the past decade or so. Performance needs aside, I feel like we're just going around in circles since Rails.
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iamwil 1946 days ago
Performance is a real need. Iterating and maintenance is also a good thing.

A 2x refinement may be a difference in degree, but a 10x refinement will be a difference in kind that will enable other kinds of innovation.

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blacktriangle 1946 days ago
Pretty much the same reason Wordpress marches on. The advantages of a "better" language are just not worth rebuilding the entire ecosystem around WP or Rails, both of which have massive leads and neither of which are standing still. RESTful APIs are pretty much a solved problem, the next language isn't going to get big by being a better Rails, it's going to get big by doing something new.
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