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Effect of the Last Week on Ruby on Rails

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31 pointsrbanffy6 comments

Tiresome how so many of these projects have to become a platform for politics that have absolutely nothing to do with the project goals.

I can’t help but think Rails will be more successful in the long run by removing the dependence on contributors who feel the need to let their political views dictate their work/support to this degree.

Did you even read the thread? The concern is not that someone's political or apolitical stance should lead to fewer contributors, but that rails as it stands is inextricably entwined with Basecamp and DHH, and that is untenable for the frameworks health for the long-term, not the short term. it's a call for community governance and guidance.

If anything it praises basecamp and DHH for the wonderful work they've done in service of rails, while also acknowledging that rails as a framework could suffer bad PR if it positions itself as inextricable from its most prominent users who will (as is the way of the world) inevitably suffer some form of negative PR.

It's a call for independence and self reliance as a community, people's political positions be damned.

People that don’t like DHHs views are very welcome to find something else to take over in their quest for religious purity.

Rails has always been against the grain. Constraints are liberating.

Let’s get back to the code and making people’s life easier with it - whoever they are.

Leave politics to the politicians and engineering to the engineers.

It’s time for this politics in everything fashion to die a overdue death.

I wonder why Facebook's React never suffered any bad publicity, it's made by one of the most hated mega corps out there. Can anyone explain?

interesting question. Maybe because react mainly developed by facebook for facebook and they sorta let us use it?

maybe just the degree to which community participated in development.

maybe react today is where rails was 5-10 years ago in its life. give another 10 years assuming react is still massively used framework, it'll face similar issue. I don't know, interesting question.

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