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I'm really confused. I'm not a computer science major, but I've worked with a lot of really talented developers who use Rails to great effect, so I'm struggling to parse this message without dismissing it out of hand. It's difficult to listen and take seriously authors who throw around jargon like punches. As a layman, it strikes me as pedantry.

So, can anyone answer the question: Are these concerns objective, or are they just opinion written in a way to make the author sound authoritative on the matter?

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Take it all with a grain of salt. His point is more on a basis of principles and approaches to software design that builds on the quote: "It is practically impossible to teach OO design to students that have had a prior exposure to Rails".

Too many variables come into play when devs choose their framework of choice so it's quite the broad sweep to say "Let's put our framework against yours". I think the bigger point is: ".NET finally has some innovative approaches to the web"

We've learned from Rails, Django, etc and now we bring something new to the table. Regardless of the tone of the article, that's the message I would like to see be relayed

The qualifier for most of the recent influx of anti-Rails posts is the same debate we've seen over and over again - Is OO design the end all and be all of design?

And the answer to that is, probably not. But it's one of the best we know currently and until a compelling replacement comes along, it'll be used. ^_^

unfortunately a low quality article and framework promoted with some strong language, swear and some principles which do not have any coherence. Weak critics of other frameworks without knowledge and substance. The list of principles he counts are non-well-thought selection of random things. the guy seems confused, but needs to talk; he is an enemy of inheritance, and claims such things like "This is only possible with static typing because you can’t get the level of introspection and reflection necessary to pull this off with dynamic typing and string-only reflection."

this is not the mvc, OO or rails critic you are looking for. Expect better to come in 2012.

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