It's really not surprising to me that the original link to Shaw's article is buried on HN. This is exactly what he is talking about: it's not about right or wr

It's really not surprising to me that the original link to Shaw's article is buried on HN. This is exactly what he is talking about: it's not about right or wrong anymore, it's all about tribalism. I can remember when RoR was the newest, hip, thing in Silicon Valley. If you even mentioned something wrong with it on HN, you were silenced and downvoted. There were real issues with RoR that needed to be addressed, but the community developers would rather spend time silencing opposing opinions that actually fixing the flaws in the language. Where are these developers now? They all moved onto Javascript frameworks and node.js. There are real issues with Python 3. The Python 3 faction of the community has basically told anyone that asks to fuck off and do things their way. The responses here on HN and this 'rebuttal' have really just proven his point. I would have rather it proven him wrong.