Hacker News Front Page · José Valim @josevalim ·
Living in the Weimar era of Ruby
El autor sostiene que la pérdida de interés de figuras influyentes por Ruby y Rails deja espacio para una renovación impulsada por la comunidad y por herramientas de IA. Describe nuevas bibliotecas para generar PDF y Parquet, mejoras en otras áreas del ecosistema y proyectos de rendimiento, y señala que la creación de gemas nuevas casi se duplicó en un año. Su argumento es que, en vez de reescribir aplicaciones en otros lenguajes, los desarrolladores pueden usar estas herramientas para resolver problemas antiguos de Ruby y mejorar el stack que ya tienen.
Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied for. The message from the supreme leader was clear: we vibe-rewrote HEY in a more performant way, it worked great, we neither need nor care about Rails anymore. I honestly believe that, instead of amassing even more applause via vitriolic truth-bombing, he could have just left the toy he no longer loves - including its community - in peace. But here is the thing: the rich and famous losing interest in the good stuff does not oblige the rest of us to. If anything, it frees up the room.