@marcoroth.dev it was an awesome talk, so excited for the future of rails frontend ❤️🔥

Correct, YJIT, ZJIT, ruby lsp, prism are some of the big ruby projects that Shopify in all fairness contributed to community and still fully control

He’s not meaningfully involved in gem development including Rails. He had 4-5 non-meaningful commits this year, but he is the BDFL. He engineered the core team and Rails Foundation (and now Ruby Central) to be chess pieces on his board.

I hear you, I can’t blame you. It breaks my heart that I had to make that decision, but as a US citizen and an immigrant I personally can’t live with myself if I continue using his tech. Sometimes our values have to come before our comfort zones.

This. They’re attempting to dehumanize the marginalized minorities that said leader is attacking, a classical strategy by extremists to dismiss legit concerns. Very sad 😔​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What’s Ruby’s value proposition without the Rails ecosystem in 2025? Most of Ruby’s advantages came from Rails itself. Why not skip Ruby entirely for something with clearer technical benefits?

Support Plan Vert’s values but agree it won’t work. But curious about your new framework approach - how does it compete when developers leaving Rails could just learn Elixir/Go instead?

The RoR community deserves better than a leader spewing political garbage. Rails is bigger than one guy’s culture war blog — it thrives because of its diverse, global community.

Glorious 😂

This is one of those rare instances that I find my self speechless 😶😅

Fucking hell this is a mess! Ruby has one of the kindest communities, yet every few years we’re dragged into scandal!

451 all the way! 403 makes you a part of said government propaganda machine.