I remember what shit was like in 1998, which is why I get the same sort of aggressive reflex anytime someone is criticising Rails.

Back then, a web project could, and this is only slightly hyperbolic, include a file ```/project/htdocs/version-2.0-old/real/includes/templates/config.passwords.production.INC.php3~```

...and that file would start with ```<table>``` and, somewhere, include the SQL to delete a user.

That was the state of our industry when Rails was released. Which is why anybody who went through that transition weeps whenever people today regurgitate this bullshit about "magic" and "OOP considered harmful". Maybe functional programming is incrementally better. Maybe Rails is past its prime. But on a purely emotional basis, I feel defensive when some article doesn't start with a paragraph praising the genius of DHH before offering its criticism.