You just never bothered digging into Rails and going through at least the majority of the documntation. I tried playing around with Spring, guess what? It sucks

You just never bothered digging into Rails and going through at least the majority of the documntation. I tried playing around with Spring, guess what? It sucks, the amount of reading you have to do just to try and get a hello world is immense. Agree about symbols though, that's not a good thing. Every language has mistakes though.