Developer and Ruby gem author announces he is archiving the source code of his Ruby gems to make clear he is no longer working on them, and publishes this post to explain why.
He recalls Ruby designer Yukihiro Matsumoto, known as "Matz", describing Ruby as designed for joy, creativity and humans. The author says that era, when Ruby was built for people, has passed, and with it his enthusiasm for maintaining gems. He says he once valued working with and for people.
The author objects to the direction of Ruby's ecosystem. Rails, the dominant Ruby web framework, is owned and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, whose views the author finds abhorrent, though an effort to fork it is underway. The author notes that Hansson now uses LLM agents to generate apps in Rust and no longer appears particularly interested in Ruby or programming itself.
He also says the Ruby language is increasingly developed using LLM agents, and that Matz now positions Ruby as a programming language for the AI age, arguing that LLMs need more human-written Ruby code to consume. The author feels uninspired to contribute to a commons he sees being strip-mined by large corporations to feed the machines that pollute it. He concludes that writing code by hand is still sustainable, and says he is out.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing