Ember was rails on the frontend. Still chugging along I guess, but honest to god I haven't seen a soul use it in the past three years. Anywhere I worked, anywhere I asked.
I'm using Phoenix and Elixir these days instead of Rails. But I've also been circling back to C# after 9 years of not using it for anything. C# has become to so incredibly open that you can write C# code and build static binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows, with single commands. Definitely check it out if you want something like that under your toolbelt.
The fact is, the javascript ecosystem is a house of cards. Most definitely the worst ecosystem I've ever used to write software. I sometimes wish a competitor to NPM launched with better organization and rules. NPM is insane, in all the worst ways. Google the left-pad incident. We need JS so we're stuck with NPM I guess.
Maybe with Phoenix LiveView we can get away with _less_ JS - maybe...
I'm using Phoenix and Elixir these days instead of Rails. But I've also been circling back to C# after 9 years of not using it for anything. C# has become to so incredibly open that you can write C# code and build static binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows, with single commands. Definitely check it out if you want something like that under your toolbelt.
The fact is, the javascript ecosystem is a house of cards. Most definitely the worst ecosystem I've ever used to write software. I sometimes wish a competitor to NPM launched with better organization and rules. NPM is insane, in all the worst ways. Google the left-pad incident. We need JS so we're stuck with NPM I guess.
Maybe with Phoenix LiveView we can get away with _less_ JS - maybe...