I'm always tickled by the mythology that was sold thanks to a macbook and a textmate theme - that creativity is inherent to it, and that it is a pioneers tool,

I'm always tickled by the mythology that was sold thanks to a macbook and a textmate theme - that creativity is inherent to it, and that it is a pioneers tool, for craftmenship etc. That might all matter if the first thing people did once deploying it was to port off of it. For software that has such a rapid expiration date, none of it selling points matter. You might as well have written it in php or perl. Rails continues to be a favorite joke of mine.