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