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Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
Back in 2014, Tom Stuart delivered a pithy yet salient lightning talk at the Scottish Ruby Conference titled The DHH Problem, in which he succinctly describes the character of David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails. Just like Fox News, DHH appeals to “common sense” and makes a show of being “fair and balanced” but, in reality, his arguments use aggressive rhetoric and rely on a fixed viewpoint. Early posts on this blog tended to follow a theme of his “natural political stance” ostensibly being left-leaning, while being open to right-wing views as a way to “find common ground”.
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