DHH on passion and tools. May 25, 2007
I think we’re seeing the same thing with Ruby on Rails as we were in some sense seing with Agile and with XP. People leave companies to work in more passionate environments. And, if they were forced to work in waterfall development processes and practices they would leave that shop to chase an XP shop or Agile evnironment. And, I’m seeing the same kind of thing. A lot of people come up to me and say “I quit my job because of Java…I quit my job because of .Net. I simply did not want to work in an environment where we used those tools anymore. I’m not passionate about those tools so I chose to take a minor position somewhere else doing Ruby on Rails. I chose to go freelance doing Ruby on Rails. And I’m much happier now.” - DHH
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