[svlug] (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Josef Grosch (jgrosch at gmail.com):

> If Microsoft has in fact bought Github I will be migrating off. I'm not
> sure if I will got with Gitlab or Bitbucket. I've used all 3 at various
> consulting gigs with Gitlab being used at my current gig. I'm leaning
> towards Gitlab because I like the idea of self-hosting but my past
> experiences with Ruby on Rails was a bit of a disaster, mostly because
> of not knowing what I'm doing and "What ? Read the freaking manual ?
> That's for wussies."

I know exactly what sort of mishegoss you're talking about -- but Ruby
the scripting language is rather a different proposition from Ruby on
Rails, and I'd not blame the Ruby language for what David Heinemeier
Hansson[1] & co. did with it as a component of the Rails server-side Web
application framework.

FWIW, if you've worked with Chef, you'll have run into Ruby.  And you
might actually like it as an interpreted language.


[1] My Tante Bjorg always warned me to not trust those Scandinavians.
And my Onkel Reidar said the same thing.  (But Bestemor Margot and
Farfar Arne thought they're basically alright.)