Open source software is great and all but I just wish that everyone that disagreed with me wasn’t allowed in.
Rails Needs New Governance
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#12All this drama has me worried. I'm unemployed and I've been doing ruby on rails for most of my career. With all the drama lately, do I need to find a different language or framework to work with? Edit: Just for clarity, I have used a lot more than ruby outside of work.
> I've been doing ruby on rails for most of my career. ... do I need to find a different language or framework to work with?
Yes you should be branching out. Politics has nothing to do with why.
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You might need to similarly govern your emotions before posting here.
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#15DHH and Tobi are far right? Give me a break!
Heh. That’s news to me too
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#16I 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.
+1 - I may disagree or agree with DHH but this is the core issue: Rails is a technical body of work. Focus on that.
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#19Rails would have become irrelevant long ago if it wasnt for DHH. Especially in recent years he has been doing an enormous amount of stuff to keep Rails relevant and still the top choice for rapidly building businesses with a small team.
I don't agree with him on political matters but that is irrelevant. He's not my senator, he runs an open source project (and does it really well).
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#20The author can't fork Rails because "the amount of work that goes into maintaining this ecosystem is enormous and expensive."
Rails IS FREE TO USE. If you want to improve test driven development, do the work yourself. Or start a company and dedicate 40% of your extremely well paid engineers time open source code others can use for free.
37signals and Shopify make the decisions because THEY DO THE WORK. I am happy to sit back and free load off of their contributions even if I disagree with DHH and Tobi's political opinions.