So I see the rage is all about dissing Rails as often as possible these days, more often than not in the Node community. Yet Tower is a virtual copy and paste o

So I see the rage is all about dissing Rails as often as possible these days, more often than not in the Node community. Yet Tower is a virtual copy and paste of the popular Ruby web framework and it's pure awesome. There is something of a schizophrenic behavior at work here. I am a Rails dev, I love the framework for all its strengths and would choose to live with its (relative) shortcomings any day but I think there's something not healthy about how it seems that a new (web framwork|language|paradigm|whatevs) always has to (kill|take a dump on) the competition to claim the spotlights. The two technologies can co-exist without a problem, there are many pieces of software to fill that gap without having to reinvent the wheel where Rails does the job just fine. And to anyone saying Rails has become "bloated", quit the catchphrases-based rhetoric already, a Rails project is nothing more than a set of conventions and classes, the developer (that's you) has a choice of tools every step of the way, so if your app is bloated, stop producing bloated code or hopelessly waiting for a silver bullet, IT IS NOT HAPPENING. NEVER. NODE WON'T BE IT EITHER. Three years from now, some clever dude will come up with a new fresh concept, Node will suddenly be so 2012 but deep down you'll know. You'll know it's the same old caper below the latest layer of paint and glitter. Props to the people who worked hard on Java frameworks who make tons of people happy in the heavy infrastructure enterprise realm, props to the people behind PHP and associated frameworks, props to Rails dev for pushing the envelope and making me enjoy programming again and props to Ryan Dahl, Google and Joyent for making Node happen and shaking the bottle once again. It does NOT have to be X VS Y VS Z.