I'm looking at Blazor/wasm nowadays and it's causing me an awful lot of nostalgia when I think back to the early days of Rails (if '08 can be called early days per-se), because of the shit show back then with various tech stacks and the grunt work required to get a site up with some DB backed data source and whatnot.

And I feel like today we are back to some kind of a point of having to shoehorn FE/BE tech together unless we use some isomorphic approach which, predominantly, forces the use of JS.

And I remember DHH commenting on this regarding Java and saying something to the tune of "Why would I write Java when Ruby is so much better?". Back then I thought such a statement was too indignant, like someone getting on their high horse about a particular kind of building material that is better above all else. But nowadays, I see the wisdom behind it all the same.

I just want simple bloody tech that treats the browser as a layout and input handling engine and lets me write code in any language I see fit, whether it's Ruby, F#, C#, Clojure, whatever. I'm hoping Blazor or something like it can deliver on that vision.