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Rails dev. Did a long pair-coding interview at a company that had all JS for their backend. Tried out the JS ORM.

Most of the day was me: let's do <this easy, normal thing in the ORM.> Them: well, this is more like a half-baked rails knockoff so things like that aren't there.

So, they knew it was lousy, but picked it because it was JS? Sigh.




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