On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 16:14, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is funny that Ruby (mostly Rails) is only community I know that > attacks developers using Windows Whoa, hold on there buckaroo! We do *not* "attack" them! (Okay, maybe *some* people do, but the Ruby community at large certainly doesn't, and frowns on those who do.) We just tell them that they're probably going to have some additional difficulties. If they want to keep developing Ruby under Windows, for whatever reason, they're welcome to, and we'll gladly give them what help we can. However, a lot of it is based on the values of environment variables (especially paths) and other things that are a good bit harder to deal with properly under Windows than on Unixes (including Linux and, under the hood, Mac). If it were a matter of snobbery, you'd probably see the Linux and Mac guys "attacking" each other. But no, it's a simple realization that some tools are better than others at certain things. Yes, one could argue that one of the above is better than the other for such tasks... but the difference is small enough that it's not a significant added difficulty, especially as compared to Windows. Analogy: if you want to carve your turkey with an ordinary table knife, because that's all you've got and after all that's what most people use for most of their general food-prep-with-a-knife purposes, you go right ahead. It will still work OK (albeit with a lot more effort), and we of the turkey-carving community will still give you turkey-carving advice if you ask. However, we'll still recommend you use a proper carving knife, or maybe a butcher's knife, or at least a large high-quality steak knife. On the other claw, we also wouldn't recommend using a carving knife for spreading butter on our dinner rolls. -Dave -- LOOKING FOR WORK! What: Ruby (on/off Rails), Python, other modern languages. Where: Northern Virginia, Washington DC (near Orange Line), and remote work. See: davearonson.com (main) * codosaur.us (code) * dare2xl.com (excellence). Specialization is for insects. (Heinlein) - Have Pun, Will Babble! (Aronson) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
