Matestack – Reactive UIs in pure Ruby
Love the idea of it, even if it's not for me. Ruby needs new blood infused into it.I realized recently that Rails started losing its popularity because it just didn't quite keep up as the web evolved. Where the framework and its community resources (guides/tutorials) should have started promoting REST APIs and out-of-the-box no-friction compatibility with modern tooling like npm/webpack/react/whatever, instead it stuck with "the Asset Pipeline," purely MVC-style full-page-reload apps, and things like Coffeescript/jQuery by default.It's really unfortunate because Rails is such a brilliant framework, and Ruby such a lovely language, and they're falling out of the mainstream and losing popularity because of this. I wish the community would re-align.Michael Hartl's book, the go-to "learn Rails" resource, is a classic example. I think it's costing the community more than helping it nowadays. Although it's a great guide, it just feels weirdly out of date to be building a purely MVC full-page-reload app. And I think for every person it helps, five people look at it and think "seem like this isn't what I need for my project."