Does hating tools make sense?
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Rails developers are a funny lot.
A lot of us would be seriously pissed if we had to use anything but Ruby and maybe Rails, and we would often be pissed if we were forced not to use Macs.
Why is this?
Because bad tools cause frustration. If you are regularly frustrated by something, you start to think of it as annoying. If you find a better way to solve a problem, you start to think of the old solution as pointless and dumb. If you’re forced to still use that old solution, you move up into another layer: hate. We all know that Java solutions are much more frustrating then Rails solution.s As a result, we hate java.
We hate not using the best tool for the job
OSX is great because its based on unix i.e. command line, but it also has a bunch of great graphic tools that are very modern. Linux doesn’t have a bunch of great GUI software on there, and Windows has shitty command line capabilities.
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