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0 pointszanellato191y ago0 comments

I have worked with 3 companies that had more than 5 years of Rails and I never had the pain people say it here. It continues to be easy to add features, grow the codebase and understand what is happening.

I wonder how people don't understand the codebases they inherit to be honest.

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horsawlarway1y ago

If the team stays small - rails stays ok.

I've twice now worked for companies that have experienced very dramatic growth. In both of those cases, rails became a huge liability.

Case 1 - I was hire 7, we grew to ~350 engineers in 5 years.

Case 2 - I was hire 50, we grew to ~700 engineers in 5 years.

I'm not saying you can't also mess up that growth without Rails (trust, me - it's very challenging to grow at that speed and retain your sanity) but Rails makes it basically impossible.

And as a counter - if you're small and stay small, basically any tech stack will work just fine, Rails is fine and so are most of the rest.

Essentially - Rails heavily prioritizes single developer productivity at the expense of multi-team productivity.

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