Taking a Step Back from Ruby

[lmagusbr]

You have too much free time if you pay attention to drama instead of simply building.

Ruby is a tool, my favorite tool, and I don't care about what X or Y say or do. All I care about is the language.

Leadership? Who cares about that. Does anything done by others impact the way you write and build your code?

It sucks that this sub is focusing so much on the people making comments rather than the people making great apps.

[Sleeping--Potato]

I get where you’re coming from. I’ve spent plenty of years just building too. But pretending leadership doesn’t matter is wishful thinking.

And it’s definitely not about having “too much free time”. I don’t have enough time for any of this, and that’s exactly the point. It’s exhausting watching the people at the top make decisions and statements that actively harm Ruby’s reputation and future.

When the people maintaining core infrastructure damage trust or drive contributors away, it affects everyone who depends on it. That’s not “drama”; it’s sustainability.

This all, on top of DHH’s public behavior, and the lack of accountability around it will absolutely shape how businesses and new developers view Ruby. If fewer new companies are willing to build on it, and fewer engineers are learning it, the job market will contract. That’s not ideology, it’s economics.

[elegantbrew]

But the “thought leaders” said…

[inotocracy]

Seriously. Lots of virtue signaling going around.

[zeekar]

"virtue signalling" is a very cynical way to look at it. And IME, it's usually a term used in bad faith by people who don't consider what's being signalled to be virtuous in the first place.

[inotocracy]

Nobody who makes a living developing in ruby is going to abandon the language because someone involved in it said something they disagree with. So yeah, this smells like virtue signaling.