[jetpks]

It’s around and popular, but it doesn’t have zealots to suck all the oxygen out of the conversation.

Look at the people in this comment section that are emotionally upset that the author didn’t prefer JS over ruby. They’re calling the author stupid, saying the author is bad at bootstrapping or just not using the right frameworks.

People don’t seem to be emotionally connected to Rails in the same way.

[regularfry]

They used to be at one point. Then the hype machine switched track. The thing that did it, from memory, was Twitter coming out and saying they'd switched away because they couldn't make it go fast enough. All of a sudden all the cool kids decided that execution speed was the only thing that mattered, and oh look, v8 can handle a tonne of connections without slowing down and the circus moved on.