RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

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The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, caused quite a stir last week with comments in his Rails World keynote, when he revealed that coding by hand is dead at his company, 37signals.

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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I totally agree. Whenever I've criticised Ruby, e.g. for it's insane level of hard to follow "magic", people just say "that's just Ruby on Rails... not all Ruby is like that". I have no idea why it's popular or why we should listen to anyone that thinks Ruby is amazing and Rust is terrible. It shows an astounding level of poor taste.

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