I think Rails could go far if DHH et al keep their ears to the ground about the state of web development and adapt accordingly. It still has some killer features that I've yet to see replicated with as high a level of ergonomics and elegance.
For instance, GraphQL in Rails is smooth like butter. You define the types and the fields just resolve like magic based on your models. I wrote an API a while back and it was just stunning at how easy it was to write. Only issue? I wasn't using Rails. I was using all of the niceties of Rails like autoloading, ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord, associations, etc., without the actual, framework of MVC. If Rails could really invest in the API mode and get it working with say, GraphQL, I could see it working amazingly.
Plus, you could take the DSL idea and expand it to GraphQL. GraphQL top level queries and mutations take similar forms (get all of resource, get one of resource, etc). You could easily abstract that into a DSL if you'd like.
Authorization and authentication in GraphQL isn't amazing either. I'd really like to see someone making that simple and on by default.
There's also some generic Ruby tooling things that'd be nice. Types, of course. The standard way would be a mypy/TypeScript esque annotations with erasure at runtime, but I actually feel like Ruby could do something really neat and really true to the language by developing runtime dependent type checking. Autoformatting would be nice (any thoughts on rufo[0]?)
For instance, GraphQL in Rails is smooth like butter. You define the types and the fields just resolve like magic based on your models. I wrote an API a while back and it was just stunning at how easy it was to write. Only issue? I wasn't using Rails. I was using all of the niceties of Rails like autoloading, ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord, associations, etc., without the actual, framework of MVC. If Rails could really invest in the API mode and get it working with say, GraphQL, I could see it working amazingly.
Plus, you could take the DSL idea and expand it to GraphQL. GraphQL top level queries and mutations take similar forms (get all of resource, get one of resource, etc). You could easily abstract that into a DSL if you'd like.
Authorization and authentication in GraphQL isn't amazing either. I'd really like to see someone making that simple and on by default.
There's also some generic Ruby tooling things that'd be nice. Types, of course. The standard way would be a mypy/TypeScript esque annotations with erasure at runtime, but I actually feel like Ruby could do something really neat and really true to the language by developing runtime dependent type checking. Autoformatting would be nice (any thoughts on rufo[0]?)
[0] https://github.com/ruby-formatter/rufo