On: The lifestyle business bullshit

[hbien]

I'm pretty sure Rails was game changing.

[mixmax → hbien]

Lisp was gamechanging, C was gamechanging, maybe fortran was gamechanging.

Rails is just a framework, albeit a popular one. Let's see if people still use it in five years, or if they have moved onto the new new thing.

[_csoo → hbien]

Maybe in the way it's encouraged other web frameworks to adopt MVC, but that's not a huge deal. MVC has been around for a long time anyhow.

[derefr → _csoo]

It didn't change the whole world just a little bit (which is what most people mean by "change the world"); it changed one tiny segment of the world—webapp programming—a lot. I think that's even more laudable.

[marcusbooster → _csoo]

It did bring Ruby into the mainstream.