I work with python and typescript (occasionally c++) for my day job. I love getting to ship complete vertical slices of functionality. But I’m tired of all the faffing about. I’m sick of reinventing wheels and integrating with paid services that should be part of a frame work (e.g. auth). And writing the same types 3 times (pydantic, orm, front end)… I just want to focus on my product’s raison d'etre.

And I feel like I’ve found that with Rails. In my free time I’ve recently chosen Rails to build apps for myself. I’m aware that there’s a productivity bias in new projects but so far everything I’ve needed my app to do has come out of the box with Rails (e.g. object storage). If you’ll pardon the pun, I feel like I have these guard rails that prevent me from going off on tangents and keep me focussed on the product.

And I’ve got the app hosted! This is a first for me and I’ve been a dev for 15 years. I feel like a lot of the complexity of web dev is tamed with this framework and that I’m on a very well trodden path.