you’d be an easy prey to the idea that people can explain their successes and/or attribute it to the one enabler. but you’d be wrong. haphazard systems have won

you’d be an easy prey to the idea that people can explain their successes and/or attribute it to the one enabler. but you’d be wrong. haphazard systems have won over well-crafted ones when the well-crafted has underestimated the folly of the crowd and its propensity to stick with a bad choice. i submit for your consideration the success and monopoly of javascript. is it because of a yet unpenned doctrine by brendan rich, who, if anything, has only rendered apologies for certain bad decisions. point is, success doesn’t necessary mean a coherence of thought and practice. especially in rails’ case where we’re talking about its popularity among humans, the most irrational of beings. the crowd elected rails, not for its doctrines. i’m a rails developer and contributor, and none of that arrived by virtue of the doctrine dhh (and by extension, you) espouse.