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by ativzzz 1170 days ago
I think it's a tradeoff - rails makes live frontend updating challenging because you need to maintain a separate system to manage that, especially when you have a large app. JS frameworks have this built in, but their backend is lacking compared to rails IMO
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doodlesdev 1170 days ago
GitHub could've used Hotwire [0] but instead they decided to grow a buggy immature in-house solution.

[0]: https://hotwired.dev/

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mscccc 1170 days ago
Even with my kindest interpretation, I cannot find how this comment adds anything to the conversation. It’s also incorrect. Hotwire was released after GitHub’s internal UI framework (which is quite impressive!) was created.

Attributing some UI bugs with their choice of framework is a massive oversimplification of the problem.

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0xblinq 1168 days ago
> Hotwire was released after GitHub’s internal UI framework

Any source for this?

My understanding is that it was extracted for building Hey from the use cases the 37signals people had on other products such as basecamp, etc.

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mscccc 1167 days ago
Yes that’s correct.

I was saying it came after, meaning GitHub could not have used it since it didn’t exist. :)

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