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I have to wonder why so many presentations have 'X sucks, I say use Y which rocks' as an attitude. Negativity doesn't really sell me on much.

I realize he has just grievances against multi-json and couch-rest, but really that kind of attitude drags the whole community down.

OSS should be about collaboration, not a dick swinging contest.

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I have to wonder why so many comments have ‘X sucks, please say Y which rocks’, as an attitude. Negativity doesn't really sell me on much.

Seriously though. The poor design (& egregious misuse) of those libraries became a major concern for us at Cloudant. I wanted people to become aware of what they were doing wrong & why. I thought it would be best done with a bang. Fixing the situation beyond the patches I submitted would have required that I go on a campaign to have those libraries removed from the face of the earth (which seems more extreme than very strongly recommending people stay away from them).

When I originally wrote CouchRest, it was just the "non-magic" parts, and was a clean little library. Then one day I had about 3 hours fun, adding a query generator as an experiment. Next thing you know, that aspect had gained contributors and grown into a full blown ODM. If you just use the basic features, CouchRest should treat you just fine. The only reason you'd use the extended stuff is if you are more comfortable with Active Record style APIs than with HTTP. Turns out that's not a small set of people...

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