In reading around tonight to see if anyone has done aspect-based tree loading (instead of lazy) with Hibernate, I came across this thread. Gavin King has the patience of Job. What is great about this thread is it is not typical of the Ruby Rhetoric, it is a stamped out form: always try and make yourself look better by comparing yourself to a prior generation, then, under a wisp of pressure, profess utter ignorance of the framework you are attacking, then punt on all the design issues when the actual architecture questions reemerge in the real apples v. apples, and after convincing no one of anything, go silent.
Psychologists generally diagnose situations like this as LSE: low self-esteem. Manifests as a constant need to find something, even if it‘s a prior, interred corpse, to mount and make a claim of superiority. It‘s completely bonkers that the author admits he never actually even got Hibernate installed. What‘s next, reviews of foods he‘s never tasted, cars he‘s never driven? No, comparisons of how his car is better than the other ones he read about? No, even that would not be enough: claims that all other cars ought cease to exist because of how wonderful his car is. Almost as searing a tract as the PHP guy blowing about how Java is missing the web boat.
