On: Rich Hickey's response to “On whose authority?”

[mcphage]

I don't know if it has changed recently, but for many years the core team for Ruby were all Japanese, and most of their conversations were in Japanese, and so almost nobody in the wider Ruby / Rails community had any visibility or influence on the language's development.

[jeremyjh → mcphage]

Right, but that is just the language and VM implementation. The most important libraries in Ruby are not written by the core team who supports the VM.