Skinny nerdy bespectacled dude from RailsEnvy just walked into the room and told everyone that the author of The Rails Way was walking around handing out cards and introducing himself to everyone—and then he plugged RailsEnvy. Seemed like a pretty cool guy, and the RailsEnvy mock commercials are pretty funny too.
So apparently, this is basically a large discussion of about 40 participants, so we’ll give it the 10–15 minute test because there is a high probability of this getting really off-topic, lame, and unhelpful real quick. Point in case, there has already been evidence that this may just turn into a fire fight between developers of opposing languages: pretty much right out of the gate, there was a semi-heated back and forth going on between a Rails dude and an older businessy kind of guy who raised his hand for having worked with .net/php/cold fusion. As this conversation has unfolded, the two aforementioned battlers seem to just be argumentative dudes in general because every time either of them have spoken, they’ve been fervently combative to anyone opposing their respective points.
Lots of talk about how awesome the Rails community/culture is, how it has pushed the documentation and even the platform itself to get really awesome really quick. They are talking about whether Rails has hit the critical mass tipping point of whether is will stick around or not. Then that worked into a conversation about whether Twitter’s scaling issue has hurt the Rails community or not—the consensus is that yes, it kind of hurt the community, but in the end it was the fault of Twitter’s construction and not the language/platform itself, so they continue to use it as a bragging point.
Next topic: how to choose a de facto language. The arguments for Rails are:
- Rapid prototyping/development
- Database agnostic
- Supports many apis out of the box
- Easy to learn
- Has benefitted from intense testing that PHP has never had the benefit of
Okay, I’m yawning, and this is kind of unorganized and going nowhere but off-topic. Dudes keep arguing about irrelevant things—power tripping is lame and I’m kind of over it. Let’s go check out Khoi Vinh!
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