(2008-01-03) Zed Vs Rails

Rant Of The Day from Zed Shaw on Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Dave Thomas, ThoughtWorks, and others. Ruby On Rails is following the same trajectory I’m afraid, and ThoughtWorks is milking it while they can. First it started on the fringe in start-ups and a few lonely places where it’s having mixed success (mostly due to the poor performance of the Ruby platform). Now it’s getting adopted internally at companies where of course it’ll get fucked up again and die off. After that it’ll move to the government sector where it will languish along with it’s new found buddy COBOL.