Gitlab, Discourse, Mastodon, Forem (dev.to) etc etc. All are big OSS software and are maintainable and seem to have quite a high velocity feature development. If it was an unmaintainable mess the whole opens source thing wouldn't have worked as well as it does for them.
So maybe we should steer the debate towards - it CAN be done (as you can see) but it's more difficult with Rails (which I think is false).
Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
by chowchowchow on Sunday November 21, 2021 @07:14PM
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Well, sometimes joyfully written code can be less than joyful for those who have to read & maintain it…
I completely disagree. Joy of writing code must always be a top priority, also in large codebases. There are enough examples of where Ruby (on Rails) is used in large codebases with GitHub, Shopify, etc.
I guess it's a matter of personal match, too. Some people match better with TypeScript, others better with Rails. Nothing wrong about that.
I'm aware that they use a heavily modified version of Rails, but it still is Rails in the fundament.