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asmodai

@asmodai@mastodon.social

Professional problem solver; DevOps; buddhist, dreamer and sometimes thinker

You cannot solve social problems with technology.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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daniel_collin, to random
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The US election is depressing. I don't like any of the candidates (but obvious one is better than the other). I just hope there is a US left so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become president.

asmodai,
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@daniel_collin @neilhenning Bernie and AOC support Biden for now, as it is the obvious choice to have a chance to save their democracy. But they definitely don't hide their more European social/progressive stance, which is good. But the Democrats are vested against that as well, look at the insider trading with e.g. Pelosi.

asmodai, to random
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So I was looking at Ruby on Rails (RoR) due to something. Isn't it dangerous to keep building your product on this (e.g. GitLab, Mastodon)?

The major RoR maintainers (3) seem to be all from Shopify by this point.

Ruby is dropping more and more on language popularity charts and is hardly picked by people to learning coding with. The pool to be able to fish developers from is rapidly slinking. Heck, Lua is more popular when it comes to new people learning the language.

asmodai,
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Not a dig against the language or the tool, but if I was a product owner or doing hiring, I'd be very concerned.

It won't immediately be a problem, but contrast with C/C++, C#, Java numbers, it's just steadily collapsing. And that's ignoring the Python elephant in the room.

Another big Ruby using example is Puppet, contributions to that have also dropped heavily in the past 4 years.

asmodai,
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@tomw Ah. Yeah, there's also that aspect of it. Had conveniently blocked that I think. 😅

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