One of the worst things that can happen to a new idea for reforming software development is to have DHH swoop in with a half-assed shitty implementation of it, poisoning the idea for a generation of devs
@baldur Unpopular opinion: the software industry should stop coming up with new ways to do things for a while. At this point it's just churn. Feels like advertisments for soap powder (or, indeed, SOAP powder).
@fishidwardrobe You aren’t alone in suggesting something along those lines. I don’t agree with Douglas Crockford (of JSON fame) on everything but he made an interesting argument back in the day that IE’s stagnation was instrumental in letting web dev mature as a field.
@baldur If you set aside for a minute his rampant racism and transphobia, DHH is the industry's most visible, highest paid, least capable junior developer.
@danjac Less what he’s done and more that I keep seeing people dismiss many lighter weight frontend approaches just because Basecamp and Hey are kind of shit so they assume the approaches must be shit
@baldur yeah definitely DHH == NIH (Hotwire is an inferior HTMX). Basecamp must be dead by now, Hey never really took off. And he was an asshole to his employees just because their politics annoyed him, he went off the deep end at that point.
@baldur I was a Rails dev around the mid-2000s and it was a very toxic community, especially compared to e.g. Python, largely due to the leadership at the top. Anyone remember Zed Shaw's "Rails is a Ghetto"?
@danjac@baldur former CTO of a company I used to work for went to Hey after the no-politics thing and I now just make sure I block him anywhere he turns up - he was a shitty guy then, I'm sure he's an even worse person now having worked so closely to DHH.
@mms Oh, I’m sure he’s up to something horrible, I don’t keep up anymore. It was triggered by seeing, yet again, somebody dismiss an approach for frontend dev because Basecamp/Hey did it badly. And I’m worried the same is going to happen to buildless now that he’s on that train.
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