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Comment by mbillie1 | Hacker News Reader

This to me is very unfortunate. I'm an experienced Ruby and RubyOnRails developer, and I think that this is totally unacceptable. This is why the Python community flourishes (and I learned to code with Python!), and the Ruby community, which has unfortunately become equated to the Rails community, relatively languishes.

I also think it's pretty funny/awful/ridiculous to see Rails devs hating on JS code. (JS is difficult to write well, and is NO LESS FUBAR than your average 3+year old Rails app). As recently as Rails 2.x, Rails was using Prototype... how'd that work out? For fuck's sake, how much human decency does it take to be civilized and constructive?

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Responses to Heather's post from a relatively well-known Python developer:

https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294305445521268736

https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294306974248607745

https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294307486331187201

I guess it's just not all that black and white, is it?

Yeh...I have had brash remarks from #Ruby too and not to mention #PHP and other communities for other languages.

So I don't think this is exclusive to the Rails community.

But, what pisses me off so much - and disappoints me more, is that Ruby (and by extension Rails) is such a beautiful language that allows me to do so much with such clear, and elegant syntax - that I have an expectation that other Rails & Ruby developers would generally be pleasant and nice. Not dicks riding on their high horse because they are the tallest kids in their corner of the playground.

When, in the big scheme of things, they are just 3 feet tall.

This particular instance is even doubly disappointing because I love Hackety Hack and Shoes.rb (which both are made for beginners). Why on earth would I now dedicate some of my time, when I know the maintainer will probably be ridiculing my code behind my back? Now this has just confirmed it.

It's actually quite sad and disappointing. No amount of apologizing will make up for it - unfortunately.

#python is dominated by a toxic cabal as well, so that is unfortunate.

Seriously? I'm always on #python, and I find nothing but polite people there. :)

It used to be much worse.

It seems to have improved significantly over the past year. Not sure why.

The developer of Prototype had to handle also with a lot of criticism and there is his response: http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code

"I have learned that in the open-source world, you are not your code. A critique of your project is not tantamount to a personal attack"

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