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Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by danmaz74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:59AM (#19431387)
To be fair, Rails now makes it much easier to swap libraries if you need to, compared to how it was at the beginning. I agree that that's something useful, but personally I still think that having a sane reference combination to start from is much better than having to choose everything yourself.

Especially in the JS world, I could really feel a "library fatigue" when I had to evaluate so many different alternatives.

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Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by lmm on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:25AM (#19431674)
> I still think that having a sane reference combination to start from is much better than having to choose everything yourself.

That's why I'm such a fan of TurboGears - it's an easy starting point, but as soon as you want to step up to making your own library choices it's trivial to do so. I think the key insight is that no-one ever wants to go back to upgrading all of their different libraries in lockstep; a "platform" of libraries that are versioned together is a good starting point but at a certain point in the project lifecycle you want to unlock from that and after that trying to go back to the platform is only ever going to be pain.

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