So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
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Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#2Very sad to hear. his last commit was only a day ago: https://github.com/jimweirich
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs
This talk is a must-see, really shows off Jim Weirich's craft and overall ability to be a great pedagogue.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#4As the author of Capistrano, we leant on Rake a great deal in the new version, Jim was amazing in helping us through some of the weirder parts of the integration, and always happy to discuss the pros and cons of our planned approaches. I hope that the community can select someone to replace him. He's done great work for the community.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#5Fitting that his last publicly visible github commit is adjusting a Rakefile:
https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb0...
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#6Jim Weirich linked warmly on his blog to something I wrote back in 2005. I was 17 at the time and found it very encouraging. That was possibly a reason I kept on practicing my writing. Thanks Jim!
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#7Sad day, just read his last tweet few hours ago.....
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#8Just realised how often when working on some code I will try to contact the original author based on git blame... but in the future, a lot of those people won't be around anymore. I think we usually take for granted that people working on the same project will be here - but in a couple of years "anyone who worked on this module still alive?" may be depressingly more common. Not even from the development perspective, but working on the same thing as someone who's not alive anymore. Apart from long-term or famous construction projects, I can't think of many non-art places where the author is preserved in the history so permanently as in a source version control.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#9Jim was a silent star of the Ruby community. Some newer Rubyists might not see how important his work on Rake was on Rubys road from a toy language to a serious development environment. Also, Rake was (to my knowledge) one of the first libraries that aggressively leaned on Rubys block syntax for writing DSLs.
On top of that, he was well known for his talks and ability to explain things.
A recommended read: an early statement on Ruby on the C2 Wiki (scroll down to "User stories")
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#10That is really sad news.
Jim Weirich was a real gem. Friendly, approachable and chatty, he didn't have that aloofness so unfortunately common to some "personalities" in the ruby commmunity. In the last couple of years he had been interested in controlling drones with ruby, regularly posting articles on the Neo blog and speaking about it at conferences. It was my great pleasure to spend an hour or so with him in Singapore last year just chatting about drones, his argus control library, and applications present and future - he was a genuinely interested, interesting, friendly man with a fantastic, giving spirit.
He was one of the founding fathers of what I like to think of as the "real" ruby community and will be sorely missed.