The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, caused quite a stir last week with comments in his Rails World keynote, when he revealed that coding by hand is dead at his company, 37signals.
The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, caused quite a stir last week with comments in his Rails World keynote, when he revealed that coding by hand is dead at his company, 37signals.
I learned Rails to improve my object orientation back in the day. That was the worst mistake I did to my programming career. It basically killed my career. I can only blame myself for not jumping off that train earlier but that framework made me a dumber programmer.
I was excelling and loving the craft until I went head to head with that slop.
Maybe I should make a post about it because you guys are going to get sick of me bitching about it every time his name comes up. But it does make sense why he’s head over heals for ai.
Edit: I keep using “since” instead of “sense”… Edit to correct word.
I’m interested. Did you disagree with their opinionated style or something else? My first software job used RoR but I didn’t end up trapped by it, but I can confidently say I do not like Ruby