The only people who believe the world isn’t on fire are the ones with the matches
They tried to cancel Matz for not supporting weird DEI corporate speak in the TOS, they've been trying to cancel DHH for years for his mild conservative lean.
There's also a weird contingent who keep trying to push stuff like TypeScript for Rails and typing for Ruby, at one point they wanted to fork Rails when DHH made Hotwire default (they wanted React), etc..
Outside the weird US corporate bubble, Ruby is doing just fine. Japan, Europe, Canada, etc... Rails World gets bigger and bigger, Ruby Kaigi is growing, etc...
This was the original issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712821
HN thread. Plus lots of Twitter nonsense at the time.
The heat's died down now that COVID is over, changing politics worldwide, etc...
I know plenty of Rubyists in Europe who these days find DHH as a person to be completely odious, not to mention a maintainer in violation of CoC.
Is he a Ruby maintainer? First I've heard of this...
> know plenty of Rubyists in Europe who these days find DHH as a person to be completely odious
Different circles I guess. I live in Europe half the year and most of the Europeans I know are way more right wing than DHH...
you're whitewashing that he's racist
Also, do you watch his podcast? His host (who's literally also one of his employees) is a black woman. Not proof he's not racist, but suggests probably not.
Unless you just assume anyone to the right of you equals racist, which lots of leftists do. Which is one of many reasons why the global right is rising...