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I’m surprised to see that David Heinemeier Hansson took offense at
the latest BileBlog:

This is awesome. In the sense of awesome meaning funny in a sad, tragic way where you feel sorry for the person.

It’s surprising that David fell for Hani’s prank, just like an ordinary Andy C. Oliver. Know what, David? Hani’s biles are the self-inflicted punishment that we Java-types deserve for our sins, like XML configuration files, EJB and all the JCP madness. We enjoy them just like Xians enjoy being punished for their sins. It’s all guilt.

Note for the humor-impaired: the above was largely ironic. However, there’s also some serious debate material in this thread, buried under all the mudslinging. We can start from the following Hani quote:

There’s no doubt that ajax, tagging, semantic fappery and all that other gibberish have some potential. Ultimately though, there is no revolution, nor even an evolution. It’s simply the ability to toss in a few more tools in the toolbox. Specialised tools, that can be effective when used against the right obstacle.”