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Re:What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project by mbreese on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:17PM (#5107244)
And when you say that they are part of the Ruby community, it's sad, but I said to myself - why doesn't that surprise me. It's said that the community behind a really useful language has that type of reputation.

To tell you the truth, it's part of why I moved to python.

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Re:What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project by stoprock on Thursday January 24, 2013 @12:34AM (#5107646)
I take it you haven't seen @zeeg's tweets on the subject, then: https://twitter.com/zeeg

Sorry to disillusion you about the Python community.

Personally, part of the reason I stopped using Python heavily professionally in 2007 is because I was sick of hearing and reading Python web developers regularly disparage Ruby and the "Ruby community," a tradition carried on in comments like yours to this day.

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Re:What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project by zeeg on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:05AM (#5108101)
Are you suggesting I was talking bad about the Ruby community?

I openly dislike Ruby (as a language), but I swear this project was written in Node, which I also dislike.

Oh, and I could care less which language something is written in, my simple, trollish tweet, was only based on the usability aspect.

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Re:What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project by chris_wot on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:40AM (#5108633)
Yeah, about trollish tweets... you might offend someone.
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Re:What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project by petercooper on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:35AM (#5108612)
It's sad that the community behind a really useful language has that type of reputation.

Though not as sad as when intelligent people fall hook, line and sinker for unfair reputations formed and paraded by third parties displaying as much commonsense as those who used to stereotype others by race or gender in times past.

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