It is pretty obvious rails is dead as it hangs massively on its founder for good and for bad.
And it is quite telling that he prefers to kill it off like this rather than handing the reigns over to someone else.
A technical note - the big difference is that a design with a number of fat clients don’t need server side rendered html - that lowers the load on the server regardless of the programming language.
You can probably write quite light json apis in Ruby and the performance of them will be dominated by network and db usage anyways compared to a similar implementation done in a compiled language.
He did slow down, but that's not the way to look at dhh contributions. Rails is a whole umbrella of projects, from rails top level package to turbo, solid_cache, sprockets, action-/active-anything, etc. There are lots of relatively recent contributions in that org overall.
chvid · · focus · HN ↗
And it is quite telling that he prefers to kill it off like this rather than handing the reigns over to someone else.
A technical note - the big difference is that a design with a number of fat clients don’t need server side rendered html - that lowers the load on the server regardless of the programming language.
You can probably write quite light json apis in Ruby and the performance of them will be dominated by network and db usage anyways compared to a similar implementation done in a compiled language.
kjksf · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=6%2F20%2F2026" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=6%2F...
Zero commits are from DHH. It seems he already handed reigns over to other people.
viraptor · · focus · HN ↗