Hotwiring Rails expresses the desire to gift a lone full-stack developer all the tools they need to build the next Basecamp, GitHub, or Shopify. Not what a team of dozens or hundreds can do if they have millions in VC to buy specialists. Renaissance tech for renaissance people.
That's why I'm so pleased to rediscover the classics. Like @sstephenson said about Turbo Frames: "What if frames, but 2020?". So many powerful ideas lay in our past. The trick is to avoid nostalgia while steering clear of the present's blind turns.
Making tech more accessible to different ideas start by lowering the cost of participation. From teaching to tools. Focusing on the individual generalist, and their capacity to MAKE REAL THINGS is how I focus that mission.
That's why it's so depressing to hear the term "full stack" be used as a derogative. Or an impossible mission. That we HAVE to be a scattered band of frontend vs backend vs services vs whatever group of specialists to do cool shit. Absolutely fucking not.
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