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"This is why I refuse to learn Ruby. I don't want to be associated with that community. "Learn Ruby if you want to be associated with a bunch of people who call
by nwmcsween 15y ago
"This is why I refuse to learn Ruby. I don't want to be associated with that community. "Learn Ruby if you want to be
associated with a bunch of people who call themselves
Rockstar Programmers.""
You refuse to learn a language due to how a project acts? Have you ever read the {open,free,net}BSD or Linux mailing lists? You're not going to make it far in software development with an attitude like that.
- Joeboy 15y agoI'm not intimate with the Ruby community, but the quality / quantity / culture of the community surrounding a programming language seems like a reasonable consideration to me.
- pp19dd 15y agoIt's a fairly rational argument to have a preference/affinity for programming languages based on communities surrounding them. He stated his preferences, and that's perfectly fine. You might have been too quick in passing that judgement. Unless a quantum computing breakthrough alters the way we control computers, there will never be a one-language to rule them all. We'll continue having a wide diaspora and will take evolutionary steps to bind ideas together. Preemptive and comprehensive security model might be just one of those ideas.
- nwmcsween 15y agoNo it's not rational to assume a language isn't worth learning due to how some people act in fact it's ignorant. You use a tool due to it's merit not due to presumption of how everyone acts.