I've been a ruby user for almost 15 years. I've been to several RubyConfs in that time. I have never found that to be true. It's a thin veneer over rampant toxicity and political extremism. Many of the evangelists in the Ruby community garnered a horrible reputation outside of Ruby, then migrated to insular social media applications which no one uses, causing the slow and persistent decline in the popularity of the language.

Although I haven't been in the ruby community as long as you, I have been to two RubyConfs. I didn't notice any overt toxicity or political extremism when I went but I'd be interested to hear more about your experience if you don't mind sharing?

I started using Ruby almost 20 years ago. I've been to a boat load of Ruby conferences. I even ran a hippy dippy Ruby event on the east coast for about 10 years.

It was welcoming.

Then 2016 happened. Then some Rubyists began spewing hate and distrust at people just because of their religion.

It wasn't political until certain groups made it political.