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by dinosaurs 1651 days ago
I haven’t tried Remix, but I’ve seen the demos and read the docs. It looks promising but from what I’ve seen I think you can hardly call it the next Rails. The older I get, the more experienced I get, the more I think back of my Rails days as an amazing time. The framework had/has it all. I haven’t found anything that comes close to the developer experience and how easy and structured it is to work with.
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Agreed, and as innovative as react was for web app development, I find myself hoping that something like Svelte takes off instead. Not having to deal with the virtual DOM, JSX, etc. is the next big barrier for app development IMO, it's just an unnecessary layer of complexity now that build tooling and browsers are catching up.
What's your take on Elixir/Phoenix?
and it just came out with a fairly significant update in the last few days too. exciting times, that