Many of DHH's complaints are normal parts of every software project: - depending on third party packages can be a pain - switching environments / languages is

Many of DHH's complaints are normal parts of every software project: - depending on third party packages can be a pain - switching environments / languages is annoying The argument that these things disappear with Rails is weak. The historical argument that a dynamically typed language can handle these issues more gracefully than J2EE is valid but less relevant today.