I've had this blog post in my head for a couple years now that some day I'll get around to writing. It's titled "Toward a Common API", and it's basically about

I've had this blog post in my head for a couple years now that some day I'll get around to writing. It's titled "Toward a Common API", and it's basically about this - the convergence of best practices, naming conventions, patterns, etc across languages and frameworks that (IMHO) is a wonderful thing in that it reduces ramp up time when coming to something new. It came to me after playing with Rails for several years and then taking a look at Laravel, which is clearly Rails inspired in many ways but made some different decisions in the naming of a few things that are present in both frameworks.