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The Ruby/Rails community is one of the best and most friendly I've seen. But the worst part of it, by far is the hate for JavaScript. JavaScript is just a tool
by 0xblinq 3y ago
The Ruby/Rails community is one of the best and most friendly I've seen. But the worst part of it, by far is the hate for JavaScript.
JavaScript is just a tool, like any other. And it's a very important one like it or not. And like it or not it's going to stay here for a long time.
Just have a bit of an open mind and try to learn the basics at least, it will make things easier.
- brigandish 3y agoWhat led you to think that Ruby devs don't know the basics of Javascript?
- 0xblinq 3y agoI don't think that. My last sentence on the parent message was directed to the comment I was replying to (which said they couldn't set up node properly). What I do think is that there's a huge % of Rails devs that hate on JavaScript as if it were some kind of enemy to beat or something, and often that leads to people not wanting to learn it properly.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoA couple of Rails versions ago, I had to deal with webpack and that surely felt like an enemy trying to fight me at every step. Luckily, I no longer need a PhD in webpack or node packages in order to run rails s successfully.
- gls2ro 3y agoHere is what bothered me with JS and it might sound very stupid: The idea to have a node_modules that has tens of thousands of folders/files for the simplest package that I needed to install. Ruby has gems, but they have few files, I can easily know where to go to understand how something works or add a debugger. But just trying to read the name of all those seemed for me always like a task that I dont want to do. The language itself letting aside some warts is good, can be enjoyed and good code maybe can be written.