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Why? RoR allows lots of HN-types (hackers, people prototyping web business, etc.) to build products quickly. In fact, that's exactly what TFA is an example of.
by generalk 16y ago
Why?
RoR allows lots of HN-types (hackers, people prototyping web business, etc.) to build products quickly. In fact, that's exactly what TFA is an example of.
I'm actually constantly surprised at the number of HN readers who seem to hate on RoR out of general principal.
- jacquesm 16y agoTry posting a balanced comment about PHP if you think RoR has a hard time here. Read this and the first comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596505 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596505 That should give you a good idea.
- generalk 16y agoA lot of the HN crowd dislikes PHP, and can point to dozens of reasons why: no consistency in the standard library re: naming conventions, order of arguments, etc; poor abstractions; up until recent versions, a lack of namespaces or late static binding, and so forth. A lot of the HN crowd seems to dislike Rails, but I've never once seen someone post a objective reason why. Philosophical differences I can see -- maybe Rails isn't for everyone. But the majority of the anti-Rails posts are FUD at worst, and misinformed at best.