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