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DHH Wants To Make Web Dev Easy Again, With Ruby on Rails

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2024-11-22 17:30:06

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“What’s happened over the past let’s say 10 years, in my experience, is that we’ve sort of all turned into pink elephants — pink elephants tied with a tiny rope of learned helplessness, when it comes to deployment,” says Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. “The entire industry has cultivated a fear of touching a server! A fear of being responsible for a computer!”

Or, as Hansson put it in a Nov. 7 blog post, “Deploying modern web apps — with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable — has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS.”