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Why does Ruby still have this artisinal aura to it, never seen C/C++ For Good gathering.
Hope to see a follow-up post on what was built!
The only programming language I know of that is obsessed with trumpeting its own moral virtue. "Matz is nice so we are nice," "Ruby for good," dragging DHH, etc. Meanwhile the Ruby Central and whytheluckystiff debacles show it to be anything but.
Dude, what? Is it the MINASWAN acronym that's the problem or? If that's "trumpeting moral virtue", I can think of lots of programming languages that trumpet their moral virtue: Let's check out the Rust Code of Conduct ( https://rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct/ ): "Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude." "We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all…
"...if the answer to the problem is that people should just be virtuous, then there is no problem, because we have known that for thousands of years."
Why does Ruby still have this artisinal aura to it, never seen C/C++ For Good gathering.
If you write Ruby for a few years, and then you "go back" to other languages, you will groan. That's not to say that some other languages do not have things that we wish Ruby had, but often those other things would not really fit well with Ruby.
Nothing is perfect from every angle. But writing Ruby can be a joy for some of us.
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I would not know, but I also do not think that an event xyz in one place at time, reflects all of a community either. So I could not tell you what the people there do; probably they want to socialize. I think creating and maintaining high quality project would be much more important but maybe that's just me. All the main drivers in ruby, have been written ages ago really - rails, _why the lucky stiff, even the old "L…
> Ruby is still a great programming language, but it really needs to intensify the effort to get out of the pit-of-decline. The languages that have supplanted it haven't succeeded by being excellent. If excellence won't do it, what should "Ruby" do?
The actual Ruby for Good website has more information: https://rubyforgood.org/
Why does Ruby still have this artisinal aura to it, never seen C/C++ For Good gathering.
It's no accident that it's named after one of the rarest gems in nature. This philosophy of craft and beauty is thus instilled within the community and gets carried forward.
Excited to see this posted. We'd previously shared it in a few Slacks and were planning a larger announcement after the long weekend, but since someone beat us to it, we've opened up the early-bird registrations we were saving for Tuesday.
The Ruby for Good in-person event is absolutely not a hackathon. It's a friendly gathering of OS maintainers where we work on existing projects (some have been running for over 10 years!) and kick off new ones. We don't code into the night and burn folks out, either. We have a hard stop every day when we break for dinner. The evenings are reserved for karaoke, conversations and s'more-making around the campfire, board games, and all the other fun nerdery that happens when you get a group of awesome folks together. Really, the best way to think of the event is as "nerd camp for good." Everyone leaves having made a bunch of new close friends.
That's partly because helping non-profits is only part of the RfG mission. The other parts are growing the tech community and helping folks level up, regardless of skill level.
For people interested in attending this year: we'll be working on existing projects as well as kicking off several new ones. With ACA subsidies going away and the number of nonprofits reaching out to us, our focus area this year is healthcare. We'll be launching a project with an Ohio/Illinois nonprofit that works with pediatric cancer patients and their families, another in Virginia that works with cancer caregivers, and a Maryland nonprofit focused on mental health.
If you can't make it, almost all our projects are on GitHub and run year-round, so feel free to grab an issue!