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>>bradge+(OP)
I wasn't expecting such a nice writeup. Worth a read.

The Ruby community has been eating itself alive since almost the beginning, but it is sad to see the short-sighted destruction of trust and connection that this has had.

>>leakyc+U1
How has it been “eating itself alive”?

>>bradge+sm
Ruby promised programmer happiness and delivered programmer warfare.

Predating the current hostile takeover: •••the vitriol directed at early critics like Zed Shaw •••mysterious departure of _why the lucky stiff •••the contentious Code of Conduct •••DHH •••uneasy truce after the toxic tribalism of the Rails vs. Merb

There's more, but the linked article can send you down more interesting rabbit holes than more bullets on my list

>>leakyc+Bq
_why's departure had nothing to do with the Ruby community, as far as we know (unless some new info has come to light recently)

Zed Shaw, sure, but that's a single person (though a very vocal one; I always liked his work, but he was pretty outspoken and that got under people's skin)

DHH - yes, opinionated to a fault and outspoken like ZS, prone to create division, but that was always more about Rails than Ruby (this is not a comment on DHH recently, which I know nothing about; I stopped being active in Ruby/Rails community over a dozen years ago).

Rails vs Merb - again I think you're conflating the Rails community with the Ruby community

>>insane+nu
You won't have heard of the rest, they'll have quietly moved on to other languages.