Discourse is built on Rails and Ember, great choices supporting the success of Discourse. However, the choice was made in 2012, I wonder how may the choices be different if the project is started in 2020 ? I wonder what’s the view of discourse dev team on alternative choices: will the faster fra…

I don’t know the value of speculation like this, it is a bit like asking “what if clouds were made of delicious cotton candy, and rain was tasty lemonade” .. :wink: That being said we will continue to iterate on Ember.js to keep it within the performance parameters we require, that’s the main thing…

[image] hbm: Discourse is built on Rails and Ember, great choices supporting the success of Discourse. However, the choice was made in 2012, I wonder how may the choices be different if the project is started in 2020 ? I wonder what’s the view of discourse dev team on alternative choices: will…

[image] ashishprajapati: It’s always best option to improve & optimise what we have. We don’t need cars. We need faster horses.

Thanks @codinghorror @ashishprajapati for sharing insights. My question wasn’t meant as suggestion or doubt on choices, but wondered what’s the pro/con you see now in this stage of the project. I fully echo that choice of framework/language ultimately matters much less than the community and execut…

Thank @hbm for your thoughts and ideas :slight_smile: Yes, I agree.

For developers, Ember.js is too heavy and difficult to learn, with many outdated examples and content. Personally, I lean towards React.js or Vue.js due to their low learning curve.

I think this topic may be a little outdated four years on…

Choice of tech stack for discourse if started in 2020

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ChrisBeach (Chris) May 10, 2020, 11:58pm 4

We don’t need cars. We need faster horses.

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