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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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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I'm interested. Did you disagree with their opinionated style or something else? My first software job used RoR but I didn't end up trapped by it, but I can confidently say I do not like Ruby

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    It's been over 7 years since I finally jumped off that train (pun intended), so it's going to be difficult to boil down nit pics about it but a few things stand out.

    Yes it is very opinionated and it seems to want to constrain the programmer to its data entry style of development rather than let the programmer build with code.

    I don't think it's just because it's a framework because I've been in other frameworks (outside of Ruby), and it still felt like I was actually coding compared to ror.

    The culture felt like I am finding a gem for everything instead of actually implementing it myself.

    Like I said earlier, it felt like data entry. But could just be me.

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