It'd been a while since I was a part of a good ol' fashioned Internet Pile-On. Here's more context on my @ppk tweet: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/ppk-talk/ …
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sophisticated applications, and people who want to build those applications are tired of the barrage of shaming they are 8/
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For the record, I agree with you about sophisticated web apps. :-) I've spent 4+ years building http://soundslice.com .
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his full argument is. It's not new; it's the same as a blog post he wrote ages ago, but it amounts to shaming devs for 2/
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working on apps that don't fit into
@ppk's definition of what a morally virtuous web app should be. So forgive me for not 3/ -
applauding his point of view, and for appreciating the significant pushback he's getting. As framework authors, I believe 4/
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we have a responsibility to stand up for the idea of empowerment through abstraction. For the people like
@tomdale and 5/ -
me who never could get into software until we had the kind of allegedly bad tools that arguments like this one bemoan. 6/
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