"Rails/Hotwire performed well for a different reason / Rails has 20 years of convention-driven, heavily-documented patterns. Stimulus controllers are thin JS wrappers—most of the work is Ruby and HTML, which the agent excels at. The agent's strength in Ruby compensated for Hotwire being more niche
"Let’s Talk Tradeoffs - Let me be clear: I love React’s composability. Vue’s reactivity is elegant. But when your app doesn’t need a virtual DOM, global state managers, or hydration waterfalls, why pay the tax? The SaaS I work on isn’t Facebook. We’re not rebuilding Figma in the browser"