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leastbad

Don't doubt for a moment: Hotwire and to a lesser extent Kredis are the marquee features of Rails 7. I don't know if you've noticed like we have but he responds to critiques with "still in beta" and when people ask if it's going to have major updates before Rails 7, he says "beta is just a word".

All I know is that if we don't stand up for and tell people about this thing we love (and have invested, cumulatively, thousands of hours into, for free) then nobody is going to do it for us - even if DHH didn't have a bad case of Not Invented Here syndrome.

Thanks for the thought provoking convo! I hope you can forgive a certain degree of parental pride in what we've created.

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Andrew Stuntz

Yeah, I know. I'm trying to be excited about it haha. I think it's fine. I really like Stimulus and I'm very excited to see the mobile "hotness" that is supposedly going to come out of Turbo. But I just know it's gonna pigeon hole me into writing and app in the same way that DHH would write it. While I don't think that is a bad thing, I don't think it's a good thing either.

I don't think you have enough parental pride! I'm using and generally loving every minute of working on an app with SR around. It's quite nice.

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leastbad

Flattery will get you everywhere!

We were saying yesterday that the biggest gift that Hotwire gives us is the assumption that Stimulus will be available by default. I don't think this gets nearly as much attention as it deserves - because it's freaking awesome.