Re:My time with Rails is up
by jimbokun on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:00PM
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The point is not about "hand-coding" at all.
It's about reading the code, and having a good mental model of what is happening. This is the point Rich Hickey tried to drive home with his talk "Simple Made Easy".
If you are a developer and haven't watched this yet, you really, really should. Very important distinction to keep in mind any time you are writing software.
Haven't read the Active Record source code, but would be interesting to find out where it falls on the "Simple vs. Easy" continuum.
It's about reading the code, and having a good mental model of what is happening. This is the point Rich Hickey tried to drive home with his talk "Simple Made Easy".
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
If you are a developer and haven't watched this yet, you really, really should. Very important distinction to keep in mind any time you are writing software.
Haven't read the Active Record source code, but would be interesting to find out where it falls on the "Simple vs. Easy" continuum.