Dear HN: Rails didn't win. Nor did COBOL lose. Let's stick to substance instead of linkbait.

9 pointsby jon_dahlvor 17 Jahren1 comments

Can we keep the Tech vs. Tech linkbait off of HN? Rails didn't win, and COBOL didn't lose. Django isn't better than Rails, and Rails isn't better than Django. These thread just bring out the trolls, and get reflexively upmodded by people who didn't read the article.

Let's talk about specifics, not generalities. "Rails does X well - you should learn to use it." "PHP suffers for the lack of Y." That has substance.

Rails vs. Django lacks substance. Rails won or lost lacks substance. And PLEASE quit with the "Community X is full of douchebags - here is a bad experience I once had". As petercooper said in a related thread, "Hi pot, meet kettle."

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developingchrisvor 17 Jahren

Agreed. None of these religious discussions help entrepreneurs make their ideas into businesses.

lucasomanvor 17 Jahren

Doubly agreed. I particularly like how one of the articles refered to in the title of this thread basically said 'I surveyed my options and counted out all of these others because I don't have any experience with them.' Yeah, nice scientific decision-making there. I want back the five minutes of my life I took to read it.