How Ruby Went Off the Rails (www.404media.co)

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EDIT: archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20250929132913/https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

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[-] ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Sounds like there's enough here to start a fork.

[-] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

More evidence that although I love the idea of the MIT license, it is not good when large corporate interests and their money get involved. It's too easy for the code to get scooped up and relicensed or just hidden away. Copyleft licensed projects are the only ones I'll work on anymore.

[-] erock@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

IP and copyright are both tools used to control individuals, not corporations. We are seeing the reality in realtime with LLMs disregarding them wholesale.

[-] artiman@piefed.social 29 points 2 days ago

Insanely good headline

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

I believe not going with that hed will get you executed in an unfortunate press accident.

Like running a sports hed of "Niagara Loses."

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My 20 year dislike of RoR is finally justified, regardless of me not seeing this coming.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 12 points 1 day ago

I mean sure, it was a bit buggy, but holding a 20 year grudge on Risk of Rain seems excessive. Especially considering it came out only 12 years ago.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Also, Gearbox only got involved like last year

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

Same. I didn't use RoR before it was cool.

(Honestly I just didn't like the syntax of Ruby and there were tons of great alternatives already by the time I was looking)

[-] Novocirab@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

In general, is it worth to make an account to read on this website?

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 19 points 1 day ago

in general, yes. 404 is a reader-funded tech news site, staffed by a bunch of experienced, professional tech journalists. That said, I don't blame people for asking for an archive link.

[-] Novocirab@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

That sounds good, thank you.

[-] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

I am honestly happy that i jumped off the Ruby ship about ten years ago. Rails was both a blessing and a curse of a beautiful language.

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

Let's hope that a mastodon rewrite is coming.

[-] rozodru@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I host my own Akkoma instance and it's great. easier to set up than Mastodon, more light weight, etc. Only downside is the UI is a bit of a cluster and you really need to do some editing to make it look decent. Haven't had any issues interacting with anyone on Mastodon and what have you.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

There's already alternative implementations, with somewhat different featuresets:

Akkoma (more minimalist than Mastodon; Elixir in the backend): https://akkoma.social/
Misskey (much more feature-rich than Mastodon; Typescript in the backend; extremely Japanese): https://misskey-hub.net/en/

Having said that, frankly, I doubt that the Ruby ecosystem will fall apart from this. There's too many non-volunteers whose wage depends on Ruby to keep going...

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

So far we only have a desire to be on mastodon or gotosocial (if we ever figure out how to run our own server).

We are aware that there is other microblogging software on fedi, but we are happy on mastodon for now, as the people we want to be around are explicitly on servers running mastodon.

We can hope mastodon will do a rewrite, but yes, even if not we sadly agree. Still they should very much consider it, if only as a matter of principal.