At least in my opinion, it's because this style of coding doesn't reduce the things you need to know at all.
The claim is you can write ruby everywhere, but the problem is you still have understand all of the html tags you're using.
So you haven't reduced the knowledge requirement from "HTML + Ruby" to just Ruby, you've increased it to "HTML + Ruby + This DSL"
Doubly so, in this case, since it seems to also be aiming to replace a subset of JS based updates as well, with the same problems.
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Now - That doesn't mean the framework should be dismissed outright - It might very well be that adding this complexity brings a benefit that's entirely worth it.
Typescript is an example of that tradeoff, I'd say. It adds complexity, but the value it brings with that complexity pays for itself.
So I have no idea if this framework really delivers enough value to be worth it. My gut says no, but I haven't used it, and I'm not a huge ruby fan in the first place, so I'm the first to admit I'm a biased judge.
> There's a good group who've been working on making essentially a Ruby to JavaScript transpiler and I've heard a lot of the pitches for it and they're like, "But it's Ruby and like isn't that better?" And I'm like, "No, like JavaScript is great for what JavaScript does." I don't have this idea of just, like, there's the one approach to everything. The same thing, and that goes all the way back to thinking like SQL is not a bad language. Active Record has never taken the approach that like SQL is this sort of demon that needs to be exorcized. We've reduced the amount of SQL you need to write, on a regular basis, I don't write a lot of SQL, we used to write more because Active Record didn't do as much, but it's not from this perspective of like we have to eradicate it. We do the conceptual compression but, when I look at something like, Ruby to JavaScript transpiling, there's limited amounts of conceptual compression, 'cause you still have to understand the model of what it outputs into and like, it's just, it's not for me - David Heinemeier hansson
