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Originally Posted by Shoe Lace
Dave,
I wonder why the meet-up guys threw "unfortunately" in there.
It's like oh man it's unfortunate you can put together a really solid site using a lot of best practices in a fairly short amount of time while being able to handle a lot of traffic on cheap hardware.
What else do people want, seriously.
So, the better question is why are people abandoning it in the first place and doings so fast enough that this question can be raised at all.
My impression is that RoR is suffering a serious brain drain, or as I've heard, it is easy to find people who can install gems, but its extremely difficult to find people who can actually program and think through problems.
The unfortunate part would be that the smart people are walking away and the inexperienced are embracing it, and this serves to cause a cyclic brain drain.
Of course, that doesn't say why people are walking away I'm the first place, or why the mention of it can often times cause eyes to roll or loud snorts, but it probably has to so with the LA programmer scene, which is about as comprehensible as the fashion scene. Most people I meet here are polymath programmers.