As usual, this guy drones on and on for a long time while trying to make a point and fails to ever make it because his frustration and anger get in the way.
He's a wordy complainer. Thats all, folks.
He's a wordy complainer. Thats all, folks.
Except that's not all. Ruby and Rails now have a bad reputation, and this bad reputation has an adverse effect on people and companies adopting and continuing with the language and frameworks. It is extremely unfortunate that vocal and influential ruby developers ignore this.
First, vocal and influential Ruby developers talk about this. I've heard Chad Fowler, DHH, and Matz all talk about it at major conferences (RailsConf and RubyConf).
Second, I've worked with dozens of clients on Ruby projects, and talked with dozens more, and I've never heard these sorts of issues come up. Outside of the language war world, people don't really care if DHH swears or if an inappropriate presentation is given at a minor conference.
They sure do:
http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1631034662
http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1631100714
http://twitter.com/_why/status/1631313721
http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1631342976
http://twitter.com/_why/status/1631504321
why has a point.
There's plenty of evidence that DHH and some other prominent ruby developers simply don't care at all about people having different perspectives, and they certainly don't respect it. These guys want to use their work in software at a platform for their little personal identities. The "community" is absolutely not welcoming; it's actually outright exclusionary. They don't care, and they don't even pretend to care.
I primary work with ruby and have for a few years now. I'd like to continue to do so. But I'm frequently discouraged by the fact that involvement with the community means dealing with people who are simply not nice people.
As it is he rants and raves and complains and it sucks. Just my two cents though, I could be wrong.