I'm baffled by the fact that an article about why Node.js is popular contains so many overtones of a Ruby/RoR takedown piece. I'm trying not to be defensive (Ruby/RoR are my language and platform of choice), but the constant us of Ruby and RoR in analogies where they play the bad guy kind of has me feeling a since of irony.
"The Ruby community has been criticized for being exclusive and harsh," says the person using the Ruby community as the fall guy to prop up the new, exciting kid on the block. Are the feelings of exclusivity in the Ruby/Rails community not in some way tied to the prevailing attitude toward other languages? cough PHP
Clarification: I don't mean the above to be a slight against PHP. I'm simply pointing out that a lot of the negativity in the Ruby community centers around snobbery toward other languages, and PHP often takes the hit... hence the irony here.
Ruby and Rails are inextricably linked, because that's how a lot of people get into Ruby, and Rails is by far the most "visible" Ruby project. Plus, Rubyists are the new Pythonistas are the new Perl(issimos?) are the new Lispers.
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I'm baffled by the fact that an article about why Node.js is popular contains so many overtones of a Ruby/RoR takedown piece. I'm trying not to be defensive (Ruby/RoR are my language and platform of choice), but the constant us of Ruby and RoR in analogies where they play the bad guy kind of has me feeling a since of irony.
"The Ruby community has been criticized for being exclusive and harsh," says the person using the Ruby community as the fall guy to prop up the new, exciting kid on the block. Are the feelings of exclusivity in the Ruby/Rails community not in some way tied to the prevailing attitude toward other languages? cough PHP
Clarification: I don't mean the above to be a slight against PHP. I'm simply pointing out that a lot of the negativity in the Ruby community centers around snobbery toward other languages, and PHP often takes the hit... hence the irony here.
Ruby and Rails are inextricably linked, because that's how a lot of people get into Ruby, and Rails is by far the most "visible" Ruby project. Plus, Rubyists are the new Pythonistas are the new Perl(issimos?) are the new Lispers.