| I'm guessing this schadenfreude must be delicious, since everyone keeps coming back for additional helpings. Look, gloating over other people's security issues is shitty behavior, and frankly responsible developers don't do it. Am I calling DHH an irresponsible developer? Yeah. But the Rails core team has thankfully incorporated a number of smart and responsible developers over the past 4 years, and you see a whole lot less shit like that. Even better, security issues that have languished silently since 2006 are being identified and quickly addressed. So, no, nobody is asking anybody to look the other way. There are developers who have been in the Ruby and Rails community for a long time, who make no aspirations to being "rockstars" and are out spending their nights and weekends patching rails, and are not slagging other people off for using Java. Think of them when you feel the inclination to rant. (also, incidentally, most of the ranting about Flash and Java development have not focused on security issues, they've mainly focused on how awful it is to use those platforms to do development. Which is why things like JRuby are so wonderful. You get to develop in Ruby, and access the JVM's system of libraries.) |