Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?

Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by jph on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:01PM (#42856454)

Yes Rails 8 is great. However, pick what the team knows best. For example at a startup doing AI/ML where everyone already knows Python and we're doing a lot with Pandas and Jupyter, we're choosing to build our website CMS by using Django & HTMX.

BTW shoutout to the Loco team, for my favorite new web framework. If you're already working with Rust in general, and your business requires extreme speed and extreme reliability-- beyond simple horizontal scaling CPU/GPU/K8-- then take a look at the stack of Loco + Axum + Tokio + Rust.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by Prosammer on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:43PM (#42856972)

Loco is awesome! Hoping that the openAPI generation comes soon - then I can generate zod schemas from the openAPI doc! It would be really cool to use something like hygen/plop or maybe tera (idk) to automatically generate svelte or react CRUD pages, similar to what loco is already doing for htmx.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by jondot on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:55AM (#42864900)

Loco author here.

Thanks for the shoutouts!

We definitely try our best to match the Rails experience. Being that the experience is not something you can just have as a side effect.

We build stuff into Loco that Rails has, try it out, then decide if it's "Railsy" enough in the experience. If it's not, we delete it and try again.

I'm a Rails superfan personally, however as life turned out to me, I like Rust much more than I like Ruby. So the decision was to go "loco" and implement Rails for Rust.

We're looking for more feedback and people to try out Loco, please feel free to do so :-)

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