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Some people don't like Rails. This isn't a problem. It's not a personal insult to you or to your skills or to anyone else who likes or uses Rails. It's sometime
by almost 16y ago
Some people don't like Rails. This isn't a problem. It's not a personal insult to you or to your skills or to anyone else who likes or uses Rails. It's sometimes useful to discuss the limitations (in some subset of people's views) of software.
I say this as someone who quite likes Rails but doesn't use it at the moment. It just so happens that the bit of web work I do at the moment tends to fit Django better. But don't worry, we don't need to hate each other :)
I've flagged this article because I really can't see anything of worth coming out of it. Holy wars are very rarely that interesting.
- jacquesm 16y agoThis is rather more topical than 'today is programmers day', and I still see that on the homepage at 190 points.
- generalk 16y agoMy intent wasn't a holy war. I've used Rails for over a year. I keep hearing people say that it's slow, or it doesn't scale well, or that after the first 80% of the application is finished it gets in your way. I haven't found that to be the case, but my experience is limited. So I'm looking for any cases where any of these things have actually happened. I want to know if these claims have any substance.
- almost 16y agoOf course there are cases where Rails isn't the right solution, that's true of absolutely everything. It's probably fine for all your uses (and for mine too) though. You are not going to get a useful discussion of them with that blog post though. You use an antagonistic tone and target a group of people who largely only exist as a group in your head, that's not going to produce good stuff!