[skrish]

Reading his response to a comment in his blog changes the context of his perceived smugness. Doesn't it? Here is what I am referring to:

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DHH 10 Jul 12 Kathy, that’s a great point. Also, this pyramid can be applied in finer resolution within your stack. For example, I’m perfectly content to be at the “Well engineered” level when it comes to my use of MySQL, but when it comes to Ruby and Rails, I want to be at “Moving industry forward”.

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[paulsutter]

Changes the context of his smugness? Yeah as in erasing all doubt that the author is not merely smug but full on delusional.

Elon Musk is moving industries forward. The first time I used an iPhone it was so beautiful I could cry.

But, Rails? I mean, not to harsh on Rails at all, it's a great tool.

Moving an industry forward whenever you use Rails? WTF?

[joshuacc]

I highly doubt he's talking about moving industries forward by using Rails. More likely he means moving industries forward by creating and continuing development of Rails.

Say what you want about it now, Rails had a huge impact on the web development industry when it first came out.

[paulsutter]

Thanks for the correction, doesn't change my reaction.

Languages are great, but its hard to tell If the proliferation of so many languages moves the industry forward or backward. Wasn't the whole point of the tower of babel story that god created so many languages to slow down progress?