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Oh, fanboys like you are the worst. His online persona has one truth - he spits into communities. And to compare DHH with Zed is unfair to DHH. DHH never made

• cubicle67 15y ago
  Hi shevegen, Like you I dislike the way Zed has a tendency to group all Ruby people together and target them as a whole, when in reality his complaints would be better directed at a specific subset. I'm a Ruby dev (not a Rails one) and it stings when Zed fires his literary shotgun at Rails, and Ruby, standing next to Rails also gets hit. But... this isn't about Zed being a dick. I was pointing out that there's also a massive amount of good stuff he's done as well. I'm not a fanboy of his (Zed has fanboys?) but I do have a fair bit of respect for his ability and what he has done, and his writing does nothing to diminish the quality of his work. The comparison with DHH I thought was positive. DHH has strong opinions and (it appears) an ego to match, but can back it up with code.