Let’s be clear: I am not suggesting that you and your team will start writing better, more-certain code the day you move away from Ruby. In fact, there will be a noticeable dip in productivity and a noticeable rise in audible profanity.
Hard Work
Simplicity is complicated but the clarity is worth the fight.
Rob Pike, “Simplicity is Complicated,” dotGo 2015, Paris
wontfix
Lapse
There is only one honest measure of web performance: the time from when you click a link to when you’ve finished skipping the last ad.
Maciej Cegłowski, “The Website Obesity Crisis,” Web Directions, Sydney, 2015.
Revolution
Qt has existed for over two decades - if its massive “Beatles walking off the plane” moment hasn’t happened by then, sorry, it’s not gonna.
Spoofing
The closest example of a regulatory solution to a real technical problem is the EU mandate of cookie notification … which was disruptive for everyone and insanely stupid and pointless.