This entire essay seems to be predicated on the frankly weird assumption that if something is part of the language, it's good, but if it's part of a library, it's not — even if the two are indistinguishable. For example:
Code that writes your boilerplate for you is helpful and all, but if your language requires a pile of boilerplate to get anything done, then something is already wrong.
If the same functionality is implemented, the code is being generated somewhere. Ditto with his dismissal of Ruby on Rails because Rails is not built into Ruby like PHP's web app support is.
Code that writes your boilerplate for you is helpful and all, but if your language requires a pile of boilerplate to get anything done, then something is already wrong.
If the same functionality is implemented, the code is being generated somewhere. Ditto with his dismissal of Ruby on Rails because Rails is not built into Ruby like PHP's web app support is.