| ▲ | vinceguidry 7 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ruby community has long had a rift between two types of members, the really nice folks that take after Matz, and techbro assholes like DHH. The former have mostly tolerated the latter creating an ugly toxicity that the community has become known for, and is why I use Ruby, but have not involved myself with it. Zed Shaw, a well-known asshole himself, described it in this piece: https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto DHH has been going off the deep end with his rhetoric for years, the current political environment has made it so that he can't be ignored anymore. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bhouston 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> HH has been going off the deep end with his rhetoric for years, the current political environment has made it so that he can't be ignored anymore. But Shopify is also right wing in its executive team, and via these move they appear to be support DHH: https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media... https://disconnect.blog/the-conservative-tech-alliance-is-co... And yeah, Shopify is going to protect DHH because DHH is on Shopify's board: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | baggy_trough 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | dismalaf 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Except Matz is aligned with DHH, Tobi and others. I think lots of people confuse "nice" with "supporting every weird American left-wing cause pushed by certain corporations". Keep in mind most of the people who actually run the Ruby ecosystem and drive it forward aren't American, and it's mostly Americans whining about it. Also, people opposing it (Sidekiq, the guys starting "rv", etc...) have a vested financial interest in opposing Rails and rubygems... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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