Very cool. I even noticed this disconnect with bigger and big companies a lot. And also would offer help, however not for free. I do software for 40+ years and I've seen things go well and go south... Worked in a company with 4 customers and in a company with 25M customers and lots with numbers inbetween...
100% regarding the big companies, it gets so much worse the bigger the company gets. I had this experience when I worked for a company of 6k+ employees.
Ps I’m not offering to build for free, but the pre build consulting and post handover limited time support I don’t mind
I'm quite out of illusions here. Small startups I'd also help (consulting-wise) for free. Bigger companies however already did so much harm to their employees with how they manage change (hint: they don't) that there's a fee attached...
Yeah, makes sense in your case, personally I wasn’t planning on working with big companies, a David and Goliath battle I’m not willing to face at this point in my life
Yes. I simply hope the commenter reflects and doesn’t use a gender next time if there is no evidence of gender. That’s simply it. In 2025 I don’t feel it is appropriate for a commenter to use the pronoun “him” when there is no evidence of gender, and there isn’t at the time of comment.
Who cares about the gender pronoun, it's just a commenter online. The content is why we are reading. The author could be male, female or a bot. Not important, not relevant.
I had the honor to meet him in Bangkok for Rubyconf TH in 2022. What an exceptionally bright mind! So very approach able and fun to talk to... So many words! Rest in peace, Noah!
Ruby is a fantastic language and Rails gives lots of opportunities to go fast when adding new functionality to your product. The community is great and while there are different opinions about how to evolve Rails there is other frameworks like Hanami and libraries that don't need Rails.
In the end what matters is that you can produce the functions that make your product valuable to your customers. You need to Do it on a daily basis and always on time. Ruby on Rails helps you with that.
General advice: Do not choose the tech stack for generating your income by following fashion. It is a marathon and not a sprint after all.
I'm currently working in a Typescript environment that somebody choose for "reasons" (types, hiring,...) and I regret it every day. I'd go with Rails anytime.
