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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[–] 5 points 1 month ago

I’ve always chafed with the rails design philosophies.

I’m fine with the idea of a standard set of tools used across projects (if you’re in the ecosystem), but I hate the centralization of thought and implicit magic’s that RoR embraces.

I’m very much an explicit is better than implicit person.

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