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Jeff Atwood made similar points in The Magpie Developer: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/
by rpeden 10y ago
Jeff Atwood made similar points in The Magpie Developer: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ and Why Ruby?: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/
Not that chasing after the latest and greatest is always a bad thing, but sometimes existing (and relatively boring) tools are the best ones for the job at hand.
- majewsky 10y agoNot related to the article, but I couldn't help but chuckle at this part from the "Why Ruby" post: > It is just not a native part of the Microsoft .NET culture to make things open source
- zengid 10y agoFrom "why ruby": >Ruby isn't cool any more. Yeah, you heard me. It's not cool to write Ruby code any more. All the cool people moved on to slinging Scala and Node.js years ago. Our project isn't cool, it's just a bunch of boring old Ruby code. Personally, I'm thrilled that Ruby is now mature enough that the community no longer needs to bother with the pretense of being the coolest kid on the block. This is my feeling right now. Nobody is yelling about Ruby so I can take my time and enjoy learning it at my own pace.