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I was looking for someone mentioning RoR.

• forgetfulness 2y ago
  RoR? If it's still like the RoR I used, it can never be considered "boring", just old. It was a framework where code you dump in "conventional" locations is autoloaded everywhere. With DSLs based on interpreting the method name as an expression, reflecting on them in `method_missing` implementations you get from inheriting classes. Where state is shared between instance objects by way of reflection. Where source diving is the documentation in many third party packages. No, these were reasons why "rockstar" became a pejorative in the programming community for a while.
  • whstl 2y ago
    Yep. The article says "The opposite of being bored is to be surprised". RoR is the surprises and metaprogramming magic all the way down, with a culture that hates code comments like it's some sort of plague. People here are using "boring" as a synonym for "I can make money with it".