>I read that entire comment thread, and maybe my perspective is skewed, but I saw none of the behavior that DHH described there. The discussion was generally polite, the participants were mostly experienced Ruby developers with open-source and community track records, and their objections were well-supported. I have less sympathy now for the original post than I did.

My thoughts exactly. I read the DHH post first and thought, "I totally agree. That's why I like rails."

But the thread was perfectly civil and the people in it were experienced and well known in the Ruby world.