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> aggressive to anyone with unorthodox thoughts do you have some specific examples? (not a rails user, so if there are obvious things, i'm unware) a bit ot, b
by hnbroseph 8y ago
> aggressive to anyone with unorthodox thoughts
do you have some specific examples? (not a rails user, so if there are obvious things, i'm unware)
a bit ot, but i've noticed an uptick in what seems like a reductive/straw-man characterization of disagreeing with particular ideas as summarily dismissing "different ideas" in general.
- eridius 8y agoI don't have any examples, having not touched Rails in an extremely long time, but as I recall the core philosophy of Rails was "we're opinionated about things so you don't have to make decisions", and it's no surprise at all to me that a framework that prides itself on being opinionated would be hostile to differing ideas.
- anko 8y agoI think this might be a mischaracterisation. Rails merged with Merb because they were accepting of new ideas, and didn't see the point of 2 groups wasting their time implementing the same kinds of stuff. Rails is an opinionated framework in that it has strong opinions for what the default configuration should be. They realise it can't be general purpose and stay as effective. But if you're doing CRUD apps, on the web, those defaults save you a bunch of time. That's not hostile to differing ideas, it's just saying that some ideas don't belong in rails or rails itself becomes less good.