Rails 7.1 Released
Rails is great, and better than ever.
I&#x27;ve spent most of my early years in the field working with Django and Laravel, then moved to frontend doing [all the usual stuff we do nowadays] and this year I was assigned back to a Rails + Hotwire project.<p>I&#x27;m truly amazed how much simpler things are. I feel sad most of us have forgotten how easier things could be, and I&#x27;m terrified about new people joining this industry that will never know about how easier things could be because they&#x27;ll never experience that (as things are right now, who knows the future...).<p>If you&#x27;re reading this and never tried Rails, or discarded it because you listened somebody say the usual &quot;PHP is ugly&#x2F;Rails is dead&#x2F;JavaScript is messy&quot; give it a try with an open mind and ignore what others say for a moment. I can&#x27;t recommend it enough.<p>It might not be the best tool if you have 1k engineers working on the same repository, but as a small team it has no competitors, it&#x27;s just miles ahead everything else (well, honestly, maybe Laravel is as good).