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I feel like seeing the ruby open-source-developing community shrink a bit, and formerly community-supported libraries starting to become more abandoned or have

I feel like seeing the ruby open-source-developing community shrink a bit, and formerly community-supported libraries starting to become more abandoned or have more trouble staying maintained, is giving me a different perspective on "if the language just gets popular enough this will take care of itself." But also just seeing in general more people trying to make money with open source. I think the way open source "naturally" gets produced for free is not what it was 15+ years ago. > Do you have a bunch of examples here I don't recall any off the top of my head, because of course it's nothing I use, working in ruby. Most of the ones you mention have been around with ruby SDK's for over 10 years already, had them released when ruby was still at the top. And certainly an SDK is still more likely to be available in ruby than elixir or clojure. Let me see if I can find a few examples remembering the sorts of things I was seeing... OK some examples that don't have vendor-supplied ruby SDK but do for other languages: * vimeo: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/libraries https://developer.vimeo.com/api/libraries * slack: https://api.slack.com/tools https://api.slack.com/tools * dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation In some cases there are third-party open source libraries available, often with limited coverage and/or kind of abandoned. Vimeo is the only one I really dug into, the third-party open source "sdks" did not seem to meet my needs or do much.

nickjj 4y ago
Ah, I'm surprised Slack doesn't support Ruby, but to be fair they are pretty tight on official support with only Python, Node and Java. Fortunately there's https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client, but it's not official. Although it seems to be a good example of a community driven library coming together. I haven't used it personally (I never interfaced with Slack in a Ruby app) but at a glance it looks like it has really good docs, a decent amount of contributors, well maintained, etc.. If I were building some Rails app that used Slack I'd likely reach for this and not feel bad about it. Kind of a bummer on the other 2 tho. Thankfully I wouldn't be building too many apps using those tools, but I get the point you're making. In the grand scheme of things I think this also shows how much more popular Python is than Ruby.
- seancorfield 4y ago
  I'm actually surprised there's even a Java SDK for Slack -- their API is really straightforward to use via plain old HTTP (which is how we interact with it at work, from Clojure).

nickjj 4y ago

Ah, I'm surprised Slack doesn't support Ruby, but to be fair they are pretty tight on official support with only Python, Node and Java. Fortunately there's https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client, but it's not official. Although it seems to be a good example of a community driven library coming together. I haven't used it personally (I never interfaced with Slack in a Ruby app) but at a glance it looks like it has really good docs, a decent amount of contributors, well maintained, etc.. If I were building some Rails app that used Slack I'd likely reach for this and not feel bad about it. Kind of a bummer on the other 2 tho. Thankfully I wouldn't be building too many apps using those tools, but I get the point you're making. In the grand scheme of things I think this also shows how much more popular Python is than Ruby.

seancorfield 4y ago
I'm actually surprised there's even a Java SDK for Slack -- their API is really straightforward to use via plain old HTTP (which is how we interact with it at work, from Clojure).