I really don’t understand what all the fuss about Ruby on Rails is. For example This post. As far as I can tell Rails is nothing clever, uses a lot of old and rather bad ideas (like RDBMSes and templates-with-code-in-them) and is generally just the same as all the evil old Java frameworks that it is a relief to get away from.
As far as I can tell the only thing it’s really got is alliteration. Is that really all it takes to get some much attention?
Sure it’s a lot easier, faster and less painful than anything the Java guys use, but the same could be said of virtually anything. I can see why they are getting excited. These are people who use XML for choice, because it’s lightweight and agile compared to the language they are generally forced to use. By why the hell is everyone else getting so excited?
Answers on a postcard please.
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