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Ruby on Rails is amazing!

Today I successfully ran `pip install -r requirements.txt` in one Python project I cloned from GitHub, I couldn't believe my own eyes. Usually it's at least half an hour trying to figure out how to install dependencies.

In JavaScript ecosystem, installing packages works, but the packages get deprecated within a few months. React and many other frontend frameworks completely change their philosophy and the recommended way of writing code that you need to rewrite your app every 1-2 years or be left behind with deprecated packages.



I was looking for someone mentioning RoR.


RoR?

If it's still like the RoR I used, it can never be considered "boring", just old.

It was a framework where code you dump in "conventional" locations is autoloaded everywhere.

With DSLs based on interpreting the method name as an expression, reflecting on them in `method_missing` implementations you get from inheriting classes.

Where state is shared between instance objects by way of reflection.

Where source diving is the documentation in many third party packages.

No, these were reasons why "rockstar" became a pejorative in the programming community for a while.


Yep.

The article says "The opposite of being bored is to be surprised".

RoR is the surprises and metaprogramming magic all the way down, with a culture that hates code comments like it's some sort of plague.

People here are using "boring" as a synonym for "I can make money with it".




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