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He's writing in his second (third?) language. How's your second language? Akita is a pretty smart dude. He makes a number of good points, and maybe doesn't ti
by jkmcf 10y ago
He's writing in his second (third?) language. How's your second language?
Akita is a pretty smart dude. He makes a number of good points, and maybe doesn't tie them perfectly together, but it's a blog post he wrote in a day, not for Harpers.
A few points from his rant:
1. If you don't drink the kool aid, you'll be frustrated if you want something else
2. market forces: you have to follow rails, but if rails changes or goes away, you're stuck (-ish, it's OSS)
3. rails is good at what it does, and provides many with a useful framework, even if, in retrospect, it isn't well architected
- mangeletti 10y agoThe point @putzdown is making is not that the OP has many typos, etc., but rather that the article is incoherent babble with no structure, no point, and no evidence to support its non-point. If Akita had written: Sometimes, tools and frameworks, like Wordpress and Rails, respectively, gain enough traction that their monopoly economies of scale keep them afloat long after their value sunsets. That would have sufficed.
- putzdown 10y agoPrecisely. It would have sufficed, and it would have been an unremarkable reaffirmation of the sad reality that yes, widespread habits trump merit in many cases (Betamax vs VHS etc etc). It's not clear what he said, but if all he said was, "Sure Rails stinks but the majority uses it so suck it up," I don't think it'd be an article worth applauding.