Rewrite it in Rails
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Rewrite it in Rails
In any Ruby program, the bulk of the design, logic, and action revolves around objects. When you write Ruby programs, your main activities are creating objects, endowing them with abilities, and asking them to perform actions.
Joe Leo • The Well-Grounded Rubyist
Code wins arguments. If we tested a feature and didn’t like it, we rebuilt it until we landed on the best version. For some surfaces, like the activity feed, we rewrote it three times before we finally landed on an implementation that felt good enough.
Jesse Chen • Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve ... See more
The Alternative Implementation Problem
- Innovation tokens: Companies have limited capacity for innovation. These should be spent on core business problems, not on adopting cutting-edge tech stacks.
- Known vs. unknown unknowns: Established technologies have more known issues, while new technologies often have many unknown problems.
- Operational costs: Adding new technologies increases operati
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