First issue is that on the job, you rarely get to work with any language/platform/whatever the way you want. The platform in this case is one we have no control over. But talking with other devs, they don’t think Rails is the problem anyway. They love it. So even if I had control, I’d still lose. Why? Because Ruby devs are fucking incapable of thinking outside their little world view.

Sadly, your only real mistake is thinking that I’m going to spend the time to differentiate the 10% of Ruby devs who don’t suck from the other 90% who do. When you’re in an organization where you aren’t a lone-wolf coder, you are beholden to the 90%, because doing things even slightly out of the ordinary becomes expensive for a team. Harder to find documentation, harder to on-board new devs who are used to the standard approach, harder to convince the Ruby lifers that there are other ways to get the job done, etc. Hell, at a previous job I couldn’t even get people on board with a form-backing object, because it was a model that didn’t tie directly to a database table, gasp! (That’s the point of an FBO)

As for “Poor bastards don’t even realize how bad they are” – that was obvious, I thought. The person said “skill issue”, making fun of me, so I was turning it around on them. That final sentence was driving the point home – the person who says “skill issue” when thinking that I don’t use Ruby well is most likely in that 90% who don’t even know how awful their output has become.

In some ways I welcome AI taking dev jobs. Most AI output is as good as, or better than, the output I saw from at least half the career devs I’ve ever worked with. Ruby devs just so happen to be among the worst (though PHP devs are pretty awful, too).

Poor bastards don’t even realize how bad they are.

You make that based on which assumption? You have probably tested only a small portion of the whole ecosystem. I guess your main fault was that you equated ruby with rails – that was already the path to defeat. You can even use web-related stuff without rails. I went from PHP to ruby; all my web-needs I solved via my own custom framework in ruby. (I’d love to do a promo here, but the rubygems maintainers now disallow people to remove their own gems past 100.000 downloads; as I did not accept this hijacking attempt, I am no longer hosting gems on rubygems, only on github, but my github profile is too incomplete – I can only work on it in my limited spare time.)

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