[SoftwareMaven]

I'm not a Ruby developer, but I still can't help thinking, "WTF".

No technology stack is perfect, but I've yet to meet a stack that was pure evil. There may be some cargo-cult personalities in the Ruby community, but, if there is, it's only because there is value in it.

An infinitesimal number of sites have to deal with Twitter's scale problems. The rest can work on getting crap done instead of worrying about Maseratti problems.

[knowtheory]

Allow me to be withering in my criticism of GP.

Cargo-culting is what you accuse others of when they are learning and you do not like them.

The appropriate way to deal with newbies who do not fully understand the consequences of the decisions they have made (perhaps even while they are advocating others join them), is to explain their rhetorical and technological shortcomings in a way that others can learn from. Accusing someone of "cargo-culting" is just unhelpful character assassination.

Also, weak-sauce.

[thebluesky]

> No technology stack is perfect, but I've yet to meet a stack that was pure evil.

As someone who has seen Ruby cause major problems I'd have to say it's not too far off "pure evil"

[cglee]

You must also think cars and SQL are also pure evil?

[thebluesky]

Relative to other tools we've used, Ruby has caused a disproportionate number of problems.

[cglee]

Some context of what those problems were, how you were using Ruby, what was the expertise of your team members, etc would be of interest for such an inflammatory accusation. Bold claims require proof.

[lmm]

Aren't they?

[pyrotechnick]

argumentum ad populum