Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)

I'm just having a hard time bringing myself to care anymore. Maybe i'm getting "old", maybe it's that i don't see the scrolling characters in the matrix any longer, i dunno.

Node and Rails both have their trade-offs. Are you really going to use one or the other on the basis of what Jeremy Ashkenas feels about the progress on Rails is?

I think the thing that saddens me most is how this conversation really seems to burn people in the Ruby community.

Everything that Tony says in his article is true. There is awesome stuff that was shown off at Rubyconf, things that make me genuinely happy and hopeful for the Ruby community. But now it's couched in this incredibly grouchy, defensive "STOP SPREADING FUD" type post.

It's depressing. I'd like to think that the fun in the Ruby community didn't leave with _why, but most the things that seem to be getting attention in the past several months have either been acerbic or dry.

No need to defend ruby, in my eyes people that purport a framework|feature|language over another without technical merit (of both sides) is ignorant. On a side note I don't think any useful thought can be expressed in < 151 characters w.r.t twitter.