Zed Shaw, the writer of the popular essential server software mongrel, goes absolutely fucking nutzoid insane on his weblog in a 6000-word essay on what he hates about, well, pretty much everything to do with Rails.
Jesus H Christ, he really gets into it. Now I’m a big fan of dissing DHH and everything, but man, Zed just takes it to a whole new level of bitterness. And there’s some pretty scary disclosures, like when DHH admits to Shaw on IRC that he couldn’t keep 37Signal’s flagship products up for more than 4 minutes at a time:
(15:11:12) DHH: before fastthread we had ~400 restarts/day
(15:11:22) DHH: now we have perhaps 10
(15:11:29) Zed S.: oh nice
(15:11:33) Zed S.: and that’s still fastcgi right?
Recommended reading, it’s a laugh riot. Couldn’t agree with him more on most of it re. the idiots in the community.
Tags: mongrel