> The barrier to entry to becoming a Ruby programmer is as low as can be This isn't a conversation about being a programmer, however. This is a conversation ab

> The barrier to entry to becoming a Ruby programmer is as low as can be This isn't a conversation about being a programmer, however. This is a conversation about being part of a programming community. Successful assimilation into a community has numerous benefits for one's career prospects, social life and overall success. Exclusion can be correspondingly damaging. As a result, programming communities all over the place are having a tough conversation: is this community sufficiently inclusive? Some are indifferent to the cause of inclusiveness. What's unfortunate is that those most indifferent seem so consistently to be those most already included. So in this case, some people decided they were uncomfortable with the level of inclusion. That's a fair conversation to have. (As it happens, while _why's true identity may have been a secret, his membership in the racial and gender majority group for his field is not: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=why%20the%20lucky%20stiff&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JVepUNLdM4agiQKMrIE4&biw=1152&bih=770&sei=J1epULrXGoPUiwKJ2IAg https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q... )