Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) shares the origins of Ruby on Rails, its surprising mainstream adoption failures, and why the EU's tech regulations often backfire. Learn the story behind Basecamp's 20-year support commitment and Hey's ambitious email service.`
00:00 Welcome Tom and David
00:11 Early programming experience
00:41 Falling in love with Ruby
03:33 Building Basecamp
06:58 The rise of Ruby on Rails
14:14 The future of Ruby on Rails
20:20 Rails 7.1 and Hotwire
26:11 Browser improvements enabling no-build JavaScript
31:40 Dropping TypeScript support
37:04 Large projects without TypeScript
41:23 iOS walled garden limitations
45:47 Apple's influence in Europe
53:36 37signals commitment to legacy apps
58:21 Killing popular services
01:00:20 Maintaining legacy Basecamp versions
01:04:26 Concepting Hey email service

[@king_and_country]

This was a great conversation!

[@joeruder]

LOL.....
I remember typing in games and programs from magazines.
At that time I did not have a tape drive even (I was using a Atari-400)
I was SO excited when I was able to save up and buy the tape drive and could save my work.
That was I guess early 80s since I was still in high school and had to sneak in early to use the apple II's in the special ed classrooms.
:) Still coding today (right now actually)
Great talk....thanks for this!

I disagree with his views on EU regulation. I know that we hate those cookie notices yes, but we do care about our privacy. I've been able to browse without getting bombarded with ads from other websites I just visited. And some of the better websites have stopped using nasty cookie tracking and removed their banners. You can also use extensions to get rid of the banners.
I think the iPhone with USB C is a triumph of EU regulation. And I think if the EU steps up with the right to repair, there's a big chance we will get better devices.