I can’t help but think Rails will be more successful in the long run by removing the dependence on contributors who feel the need to let their political views dictate their work/support to this degree.
Did you even read the thread? The concern is not that someone's political or apolitical stance should lead to fewer contributors, but that rails as it stands is inextricably entwined with Basecamp and DHH, and that is untenable for the frameworks health for the long-term, not the short term. it's a call for community governance and guidance.
If anything it praises basecamp and DHH for the wonderful work they've done in service of rails, while also acknowledging that rails as a framework could suffer bad PR if it positions itself as inextricable from its most prominent users who will (as is the way of the world) inevitably suffer some form of negative PR.
It's a call for independence and self reliance as a community, people's political positions be damned.
interesting question. Maybe because react mainly developed by facebook for facebook and they sorta let us use it?
maybe just the degree to which community participated in development.
maybe react today is where rails was 5-10 years ago in its life. give another 10 years assuming react is still massively used framework, it'll face similar issue. I don't know, interesting question.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 21.6 ms ] threadIf anything it praises basecamp and DHH for the wonderful work they've done in service of rails, while also acknowledging that rails as a framework could suffer bad PR if it positions itself as inextricable from its most prominent users who will (as is the way of the world) inevitably suffer some form of negative PR.
It's a call for independence and self reliance as a community, people's political positions be damned.
Rails has always been against the grain. Constraints are liberating.
Let’s get back to the code and making people’s life easier with it - whoever they are.
Leave politics to the politicians and engineering to the engineers.
It’s time for this politics in everything fashion to die a overdue death.
maybe just the degree to which community participated in development.
maybe react today is where rails was 5-10 years ago in its life. give another 10 years assuming react is still massively used framework, it'll face similar issue. I don't know, interesting question.