3 years ago

Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson recently spoke at a virtual meetup of the Chicago Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Like Ruby on Rails, Hotwire has been released under the stewardship of Basecamp — the company Hansson co-founded alongside CEO Jason Fried and others.

However, Ruby on Rails is also competing with those JavaScript frameworks — at the very least for developer attention — and so Hotwire has to be viewed in that light too.

But Kehoe’s point is that Rails wants to remain relevant on the frontend too, especially given how important JavaScript is in today’s web.

Hotwire is an attempt to reduce the amount of JavaScript required,” Kehoe said, “but there’s still JavaScript and there’s still a need for developers with JavaScript skills as well as Ruby skills.