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Wow, this is the first time I really wished I could down vote an article on HN. Wayne, the author or RVM is a smart and incredibly nice guy who is very open to
by briandoll 16y ago
Wow, this is the first time I really wished I could down vote an article on HN.
Wayne, the author or RVM is a smart and incredibly nice guy who is very open to evolving RVM to include new techniques. He is a model open source citizen and RVM has helped a great many.
Regarding this post, spewing angry criticism without moving the conversation forward is just sad, and I'm really glad I don't have to interact with Lucas on a regular basis.
Regardless of the brash and unhelpful tone of the post, Wayne still models the selfless open source maintainer by attempting to pull out any value that may be hidden behind all the rhetoric.
- bhiggins 16y agoAnd what exactly do you think of Lucas's criticism on a technical level?
- briandoll 16y agoRVM has just announced reaching the 1.0 milestone. RVM is insanely useful to the many Ruby developers that use it. Lucas doesn't appear to use it, but is instead poking at the source from the perspective of security and strictness within the shell. I'm sure many of his points are valid and RVM could be more explicit, more strict, and support a wider swath of environments. Wayne, in fact, within the comments on this article, is trying to tease out actionable directives from Lucas' criticisms. The real issue here, from my perspective, is that Lucas is burying what may be good technical feedback inside an angry ranting blog post. What good does that do? I'm not sure I'd be as open to feedback as Wayne has been, coming from someone that sounded like Lucas.