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"how many people's professional life has been shaped, by the software framework that DHH released to the world. So in a way, he has created jobs."

This suggests that were someone not using Rail they'd be unemployed. But, really, if there were no Rails then people would have been using (say) Nitro, or sticking to some Java or PHP framework.

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I don't consider a job to be the absense of unemployment. I consider a job to have attributes, that is, my job is my role. So when I say 'created a job', I am talking about his influence in shaping a role and hence affecting somebody's life significantly. I thought about mentioning that explicitly in my comment but decided to leave it out. Again, just a thought.

Or like lots of people who are/were new to programing an exiting, creative and forward thinking framework to allow anyone to learn and create functional web apps inspired them to learn and to create when they were not programming before.

That was part of my point. Rails got massive attention, but it wasn't unique.

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