Hardly Promethean
Ruby/RailsHardly PrometheanBy Jared Normanpublished September 28th, 2026Last week I published What About Rails, a dive into DHH’s Rails World keynote. Smarter people than me had interesting things to say about it: You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can’t think of how to make your stack 10x better? The Bottleneck Isn’t Gone They’re not gonna be web apps much longer.
- ▪Ruby/RailsHardly PrometheanBy Jared Normanpublished September 28th, 2026Last week I published What About Rails, a dive into DHH’s Rails World keynote.
- ▪Smarter people than me had interesting things to say about it: You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can’t think of how to make your stack 10x better?
- ▪The Bottleneck Isn’t Gone They’re not gonna be web apps much longer.
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| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:18:24 +0000 |
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Ruby/RailsHardly PrometheanBy Jared Normanpublished September 28th, 2026Last week I published What About Rails, a dive into DHH’s Rails World keynote. Smarter people than me had interesting things to say about it: You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can’t think of how to make your stack 10x better? José Valim poses an excellent question. I tried to find an answer. The Bottleneck Isn’t Gone They’re not gonna be web apps much longer. They’re gonna be native applications, because the price of developing those things has gone to damn near zero. The move to native apps for the frontend and Rust on the backend isn’t about any particular technology. It’s about cost. DHH isn’t the first to make this case.
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