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thebluesky
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Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move
> No technology stack is perfect, but I've yet to meet a stack that was pure evil.
As someone who has seen Ruby cause major problems I'd have to say it's not too far off "pure evil"
cglee
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You must also think cars and SQL are also pure evil?
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Relative to other tools we've used, Ruby has caused a disproportionate number of problems.
cglee
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Some context of what those problems were, how you were using Ruby, what was the expertise of your team members, etc would be of interest for such an inflammatory accusation. Bold claims require proof.
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As someone who has seen Ruby cause major problems I'd have to say it's not too far off "pure evil"