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"a significant part about what attracts us to a language is the quality of people who use it." <= where did this theory even come from? I learned to program bec
by volaski 11y ago
"a significant part about what attracts us to a language is the quality of people who use it." <= where did this theory even come from? I learned to program because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about "quality" of other people who's using a language, I only care about how productive it makes me.
- rubiquity 11y ago> * I learned to program because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about "quality" of other people who's using a language* You're conflating "learning to program" with "using a specific programming language."
- volaski 11y agoOK then let me add "Rails" to that sentence if this makes you feel better. I learned to program Rails because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about "quality" of other people who's using it Rails was and is the most productive web development framework and that's why I use it. I don't even know who's in rails community.
- dasil003 11y agoIn principle yes, but in practice there's a significant signal-to-noise ratio. This is why I abandoned PHP in favor of ruby—it's not that you can't build great things in PHP, it's just that you couldn't learn as much from the community without wading through tons of crap.