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As I get older and I gain more perspective, I can't stress enough how true this is. Listening to younger programmers bemoan Ruby and Rails is humorous to me bec
by ascendantlogic 11y ago
As I get older and I gain more perspective, I can't stress enough how true this is. Listening to younger programmers bemoan Ruby and Rails is humorous to me because they don't remember the world of Java web dev before Rails. Miles of XML configs everywhere, factories, impls, proxies, beans. So. Much. Boilerplate.
It's easy to bitch about things the way they are now, but understand there are people and technologies who were around before you arrived on the scene and in general, things are consistently getting "better", for all subjective interpretations of "better".
- Dewie3 11y agoNow I'm confused. I've heard that we should learn and appreciate that nothing is new under the sun and most interesting concepts and technologies have already been invented in the past and not newly by newer technologies. Now you're saying that newer technology consistently improve things? I'm getting confused as to how the older hive mind is telling me to feel.
- jballanc 11y agoConcept and implementation are not the same thing. The concept of LISP hasn't changed in 50+ years, but the implementations have been constantly improving the whole time.
- wtetzner 11y ago> I'm getting confused as to how the older hive mind is telling me to feel. Maybe that means it's not a hive mind? Different people have different views, I suppose.
- serge2k 11y agoso what you are saying is, we should be fine to whine and complain because something better is coming.
- ascendantlogic 11y agoYes, then we can move on to whining and complaining about that.