so Rails didn't drop support for 1.8 until mid-2013, which is when I'd call the transition "complete"
Many people know, but not everyone, and there's still a great deal of "defensiveness" 3/
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I don't mean that in a bad way. It's natural and I've done it too over the years. But it's not productive 4/
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That said, I don't really have any major quibbles with any of the factual statements in your post. 5/
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So thanks for writing it up. It was helpful. 6/6
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There may be a reason for the defensiveness: people keep repeating stuff that’s known false. Gets very old.
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I gave the most crisp substantive response to this POV on the gist as well. https://gist.github.com/ubernostrum/14441f4af5683f2015b56d3bf5f6b4d8#gistcomment-1930274 …
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Saying "it has always been the plan of record" is making things worse, and probably creating a vicious cycle :/
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TBH nothing you’ve said is new argument/critique. Much of it based on wrong info. Next week it’ll be someone else.
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You see how after a while people would get defensive?
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If five years from now you were still getting misinformed Ruby-migration critiques, would you get a bit tired of it?
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I would get tired but I would try to understand WHY people continued to have wrong opinions AND 1/
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I'd spend a lot of time figuring out how to boost the signal of correct info. This happened to me in Ember! 2/2
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