09.03.06
What happened to you, Joel? You used to be cool…
Well, after a long and illustrious career talking sense on his blog, Joel Spolsky has gone and pulled a pretty monumental blunder. He writes an extensive post about how you should stick to Java if you want to do big Enterprisey Serious Business Stuff, and how all non-standard languages are risky and career-limiting. He then moves on to single out Ruby on Rails as unusable due to performance and unicode limitations.
Response from the RoR blog community (particularly DHH) : “Oh no you Didn’t!“
Not only does Joel apparently have some kind of minor brain implosion when suggesting that only the mainstream can ever succeed, he then finishes by saying that despite all his advice, for _his own team_, they develop in their own proprietary language. Because somehow his own flawed advice doesn’t apply to him. I really can’t think of anything better to say than how DHH put it: “Joel, you’re my new hero of irony.”
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