SMRTR ProgrammingSep 8, 2026Hacker News

One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it

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Rails lost its magic when it declined to merge ViewComponent into core, fragmenting the frontend ecosystem and leaving newcomers with no clear UI path — right when React and Tailwind UI were setting gold-standard component conventions. New developer adoption has fallen sharply since 2020. The proposed fix: an official Rails component library built on ViewComponent, with a new open-source project called Poetry aiming to fill that gap.

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