As an early Rails adopter who rarely gets to code directly on projects anymore (I'm a victim of my own success) I find it really curious when developers feel the need to post expository essays about framework switches. Things move fast and it would be bad for tech evolution to stop, so there's nothing to be loyal to unless you've placed awkward bets on the future of any given tool.
DHH said at the first RailsConf that he was tired of people asking if Rails would "hit critical mass" or become "ready for the enterprise" because Rails as a tool hit critical mass the moment it was useful to him and the core team that built Basecamp and Shopify. If anyone else found it useful then awesome, but everyone else can pretty much go fuck themselves.
Cocky? Sure. A lot of fun to be part of? Hell yeah.
I've never been on core but I can arrogantly speak for the early Rails community when I say that we excitedly encourage all Rails fans to try out Node, Django, SC and Backbone. Anything which captures your imagination and makes you see coding in a more whimsical, _why?-like way.
I recommend anyone that hasn't seen it check out Foy Savas' amazing talk from FutureRuby in 2009, Polyglots, Unite!
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As an early Rails adopter who rarely gets to code directly on projects anymore (I'm a victim of my own success) I find it really curious when developers feel the need to post expository essays about framework switches. Things move fast and it would be bad for tech evolution to stop, so there's nothing to be loyal to unless you've placed awkward bets on the future of any given tool.
DHH said at the first RailsConf that he was tired of people asking if Rails would "hit critical mass" or become "ready for the enterprise" because Rails as a tool hit critical mass the moment it was useful to him and the core team that built Basecamp and Shopify. If anyone else found it useful then awesome, but everyone else can pretty much go fuck themselves.
Cocky? Sure. A lot of fun to be part of? Hell yeah.
I've never been on core but I can arrogantly speak for the early Rails community when I say that we excitedly encourage all Rails fans to try out Node, Django, SC and Backbone. Anything which captures your imagination and makes you see coding in a more whimsical, _why?-like way.
I recommend anyone that hasn't seen it check out Foy Savas' amazing talk from FutureRuby in 2009, Polyglots, Unite!
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/savas-polyglots
This should be top comment!
I'm still waiting for my crack through...
https://github.com/crack
:D