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Perhaps when your entire community has only been around for a few years it is natural for it to suffer from drastic nearsightedness? Even if every major ASF pr
by tdavis 17y ago
Perhaps when your entire community has only been around for a few years it is natural for it to suffer from drastic nearsightedness?
Even if every major ASF project currently "sucks" (which is debatable, but whatever, I'll concede it), you can't create an argument which throws out everything the ASF has done up to now and have it sound logical. Which is why I read this while engaging in a perpetual eye-roll.
- moe 17y agoPerhaps when your entire community has only been around for a few years it is natural for it to suffer from drastic nearsightedness? I suggest someone with stake in ruby to sponsor glasses for that vocal minority. Articles like this damage the public perception of the ruby community. That's bad - when you are a programming language then mindshare is your most valuable asset...
- basugasubaku 17y agoThe same can be said for comments that conflate ruby with rails.
- tjogin 17y agoTwo things: 1. Keep in mind that the article is a response to another article comparing the two communities. The article author did not beg the comparison. Only defended DHH and Rails in a previously made comparison of the two. 2. The article author is the creator of the Lift web framework for Scala, so he's not really part of the Rails community to begin with. It's more of an (admittedly familiar) outsider's perspective than an insider's.