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Dec 9, 2019 at 10:57

The challenge of exploring new syntax and language features whilst soliciting feedback from the community:

Ruby, Where do We Go Now?

This article is part of the “Meta Advent 2019” series. I’ve committed to writing a new blog post here every day until Christmas. A while ago I wrote an article, where I made the case Ruby seems to have lost its way. I thought I had exhausted the topic, but a few of the recent developments around the Ruby 2.7’s development lead me to revisit it. Ruby 2.7 has become infamous at this point for several highly controversial changes that were either quickly revised or removed. A classic tell-tale of good project management and a clear vision for the future, right? Let’s examine a few of those ill-fated changes in no particular order…