Re:Rails, still?
by hardwaresofton on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:02PM
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It's more which tools are used to make abstractions -- I find that rails uses and encourages implicit (auto-created methods, stuff injected into a method's scope) abstraction creation rather than explicit (functions/higher-order functions) abstraction creation.
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Interesting. I've honestly never heard the complaint about "magic" and abstractions made so concrete. I still believe many of auto-created methods are a good thing and generally done with the thinking that if you do X in 80% of cases the same developer also wants Y. Which makes perfect sense to me but I can also see how that would be surprising and/or annoying.