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Have anyone tried Loco, a rusty attempt to be Rust on Rails (loco.rs)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think I saw this early on, but then forgot about it. Stumbled upon it today, and it actually looks like a cool project. Have anyone any experience of using it for a real or just a toy project?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rails is great for starting an app, you can get something to a functional MVP state in a ridiculously small amount of time. We used to do rapid prototyping where we could be shipping it to the client in like 2-4 weeks. I haven’t found anything that comes close to this elsewhere.

But you’re right that the big trade off is jumping off is effectively impossible, because Rails is your app. Most criticism that I see (and feel is valid) is that unless you’re willing to do a whole rewrite you will be on Rails forever. I think this is a more reasonable trade off than I see represented online; “long terms Rails is a nightmare” comes up a lot and I don’t think it’s that bad.

I personally like that we’re seeing options for both strategies here popping up. More options is good for us as devs.

[–] taladar 1 points 5 months ago

As a non-Rails-developer running some apps based on it long-term the most annoying thing about Rails when trying to debug an issue in a code-base that isn't yours is all the auto-magic stuff where the usual way to find the function called doesn't work because it is magically auto-generated in the background somewhere out of strings concatenated together.