Rails Needs New Governance

DHH going full mask off MAGA is not surprising at all in retrospect. People have been sounding the alarm about him for years and years.

I mean you can agree or disagree with DHH's politics, however I can see why it should affect our perception of his work on Ruby on Rails.

The article - outside of vague alignment with public figures and a few controversial blog posts - doesn't make any technical points.

You should be able to work with other people even if they aren't progressive (or right wing, or whatever). Braying "Nazi", "far-right extremist", etc. about pretty conventional mainstream opinions (probably the majority in the United States at this moment) just makes you sound unhinged.

Yes. My takeaway is “I disagree with his politics and therefore he should go.”

I read the article, and it digs a lot harder into DHH than I think was necessary to make the point, which I still think is a reasonable one.

I was never into Rails (got sucked into Django too early) but I did hang out with the Rails community an awful lot in the beginning.

There was a pretty large migration of diverse communities to Rails in the late 2000s / early 2010s, and they were often of really different mindsets. You had the domain-driven thoughtsworky people, the 37signals-influenced folks, and all sorts of in-betweens and outliers. Rails also influenced how programming communities developed in general; prior to that community, my main "community experiences" involved getting flamed on alt.lang.perl and whatever crusty newsgroups were related to C++.

For a while I was very certain Python had "lost" the web to Rails and Node.

Anyhow, I'm saying all this partially to reflect, and partially because I think there's a great opportunity for another migration. I'm wondering how many of these folks have considered migrating to Elixir; from what I have experienced, the technology is great and has lots of potential, and the community around it feels positive and enterprising.

While I understand that railing (intentional pun) on DHH and Shopify can feel cathartic, at this point it seems helpful to move on for multiple reasons, and the spirit of Elixir feels similar to the spirit of Rails.