alt Hacker NewsRails is still wonderful. But someone should fork Rails so it ceases to be associated with DHH. CEOs who reveal who they really are become really toxic to the brand. We've seen that happen with Tesla.
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mike1o1 • today at 5:17 AM
While DHH is the face of Rails, I’d say Shopify are the real stewards of the framework these days.
dismalaf • yesterday at 8:57 PM
Or maybe American culture warriors should chill a bit. First they tried to cancel Matz, now DHH for holding opinions that are considered progressive everywhere in the world except SV.
insane_dreamer • yesterday at 10:48 PM
I disagree. DHH is opinionated, and a bit arrogant at times, but he's not obnoxious, petty and childish like Musk.
The problem is CEO worship. You should worship Rails, not DHH. It's okay that he sometimes has other opinions, we don't have to agree with them to benefit from Rails. And there are a couple of things differentiating him from Musk: first, Rails is a byproduct of his business, not his business. 37Signals isn't even shilling some cloud service like Vercel is with NextJS. Second, DHH isn't involved in government.