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"monkey patch" is frequently used by Rubyists without anny derogatory meaning.
by futharkshill 5y ago
"monkey patch" is frequently used by Rubyists without anny derogatory meaning.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoTrue, but it was taken on by the ruby community as a badge of pride after being used as a slur by the aforementioned other community, IIRC.
- zdragnar 5y agoI first heard the term in reference to how mootools messed with prototypes of JavaScript built-ins; at that time, I had no experience with either python or ruby. Whatever context the term may have originated with, it far outgrew those origins. I definitely don't instinctively think of python programmers snubbing ruby when I hear the term.