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Move along, nothing to see here... Seriously... This is just some random blog entry about how Ruby isn't fun anymore because it's no longer a cool-kids-only thi
by jm4 18y ago
Move along, nothing to see here... Seriously... This is just some random blog entry about how Ruby isn't fun anymore because it's no longer a cool-kids-only thing. "Now it's just what we do for a living." Blah, blah, blah... Spare me the whining.
Did people vote this thing up without reading it just because it's about Ruby or is there something particularly significant and worthwhile about this post?
- ph0rque 18y agoWell, the author is a YC alumnus who runs a cloud-based RoR hosting service... not saying that this means we HN'ers should upvote on the basis of appeal to authority.
- t0pj 18y agoIt's possible that some of us are looking through the headlines, and saving them for reading at a later time. The fact that the story gets voted up is a consequence of this, perhaps.
- jm4 18y agoVery good point.
- juanpablo 18y agoHe's not whining but saying "it's the start of a new era". Read the full article not just the first paragraph.
- jimbokun 18y agoNo whining in the article I read. Which one did you read?
- timr 18y agoI was thinking something similar: if "not fun" means "Ruby is becoming a stable, documented, performant language that can be used for real work" then I, for one, welcome our new adult overlords. (Of course, there's still a long way to go until those criteria are satisfied, so I suppose it's still somewhat fun. Maybe not dance-around-naked-with-a-lampshade-on-your-head fun, but then, Zed's moved on...)