This is great news for both Steve and Balanced. For Steve, because he wanted somewhere engaging and interesting to work, which I believe Balanced is/will be. And for Balanced because Steve is a talented programmer and - perhaps more pertinently - an interesting thinker, who can only be a positive asset to the company.
Thanks! I'm mega excited about the open-ness and the standards work: I've basically made a mini-career out of triaging issues for Rails and all the other gems I maintain, and I like that I'm explicitly able to go work with other companies on building stuff. Because ultimately, we're all in this together.
Plus, since our product is an API, I can use more than just Ruby... I'm really excited to learn a whole lot more about Python programming, but also contributing to Ember stuff, as well as whatever else ends up going on.
