I'm absolutely dumbfounded that this is written by Zed Shaw. There wasn't a single expletive in the entire article!
The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.
Many commenters on N.YC were saying that those Zed's posts were 'career suicides' and I guess they were wrong. He did pretty well by spewing hate, I must admit.
Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
To be fair, Zed also said in subsequent interviews that he'd still use Ruby to make money, but he wouldn't use for hobby coding or new, envelope pushing projects.
The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.