Obie's appeal to emotion while flying the flag of rationality does us all an intellectual disservice. The article contains many accusations, but few reasoned arguments to support them, and could not be any more antithetical to Alex Payne's appeal for calm, reasoned discussion.

"Alex is indeed scapegoating Ruby for Twitter's shitty legacy codebase"

"... frankly the timing of his essay made me throw up a little in my mouth. The nausea only grew this morning when I checked on how much it's being re-tweeted."