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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by pdiddy on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:55PM (#9780518)
>Well, 2006 was a -long- time ago, and Ruby and Ruby on Rails have come a long way.

Right. I recently listened to a lot of the archive of the StackOverflow podcast. Joel & Jeff periodically discuss Rails, and Joel eventually recognizes Rails as a viable option once it improves. This blog post must have been before that.

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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by emodendroket on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:41AM (#9784233)
Even at the time, Atwood (who obviously can hardly be described as a toady for Rails -- at least not until his more recent projects) suggested his rationale for rejecting Rails was pretty questionable. And his rejection of .NET was also pretty zany.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sha...

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