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by karterk 4731 days ago
In many ways, Rails is the new VB. A little hyperbolic, perhaps, but I see a similar mindset when people ignore the language Ruby and live only in the world of Rails, eventually leading to shitty code.
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It doesn't necessarily lead to shitty code. There, it is a question of how good he is a _race car driving_.

(For those that don't want to click the link: (turing-unaware) race car drivers are programmers that know a single high-level technology very well, but are unaware of the things that the technology is based on. Somehow like Formula 1-drivers.)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/age-racecar-driver

Interesting link: David Hansson, creator of Rails, is also a professional race car driver.

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/#driver