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Responses to Heather's post from a relatively well-known Python developer: https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294305445521268736 https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/2

• marcamillion 14y ago
  Yeh...I have had brash remarks from #Ruby too and not to mention #PHP and other communities for other languages. So I don't think this is exclusive to the Rails community. But, what pisses me off so much - and disappoints me more, is that Ruby (and by extension Rails) is such a beautiful language that allows me to do so much with such clear, and elegant syntax - that I have an expectation that other Rails & Ruby developers would generally be pleasant and nice. Not dicks riding on their high horse because they are the tallest kids in their corner of the playground. When, in the big scheme of things, they are just 3 feet tall. This particular instance is even doubly disappointing because I love Hackety Hack and Shoes.rb (which both are made for beginners). Why on earth would I now dedicate some of my time, when I know the maintainer will probably be ridiculing my code behind my back? Now this has just confirmed it. It's actually quite sad and disappointing. No amount of apologizing will make up for it - unfortunately.