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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by rrix2 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:38PM (#18972800)
And yet large swaths of our profession choose to do so every day
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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by nothrabannosir on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:33PM (#18973300)
Yes, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it. That doesn't mean their parallel universe images who chose a statically typed equivalent, ceteris paribus, aren't better off.

"Lots of people do it so it must be fine," has to be the weakest form of argument I know. Which is funny, because lots of people use it. Hmm...

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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by AnthonBerg on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:19AM (#18976590)
I took it as rrix2 were pointing out a tragedy :)
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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by nothrabannosir on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:29AM (#18976626)
That’s a far better way of looking at it. I now regret not having seen it that way.

I guess you see what you want to see :(

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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by AnthonBerg on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:53PM (#18980612)
fwiw I completely understand! I have also regretted what seems to be an instinct or habit to go for that same perspective. I’m not sure I can explain in a way that makes sense.
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