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OSS developers driven by something else than just money I believe. They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it. So such respect as giving free subscription to them I think matters, as they were mentioned and respected.

> They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it.

And then Anthropic (and others) comes along, files off the name, and repackages that gift to sell to someone else for money. That’s not respectful.


no, I'm not against them to be paid by Anthropic too. But this symbolic action is also cool and respectful imo

Nah, I know open source devs that would rather tax these companies into paying actual open source devs.

Maybe get out of your SVG bubble and realize that people don't like companies that rat fuck the commons for a quick buck. It's disgusting.

There should be a penny tax per prompt that funds open source development through grants.


the pride aspect is gone though

even if you've got an outstanding project, now everyone has to wade through no much noise it'll never be found


I think there's plenty of them. I know at least 3 guys eligible for such requirements (but this guys aren't some public persons giving tech-talks and so on, just some niche libs for others to use). If Claude would ask for 100k stars repos, then yeah. I guess there would be even less than 100

> Go – I don't like it, only a bit faster than Rust

Yet arguable.


what a well written article. That's actually a problem. Time will come and hit the same way it has done to aqueduct, like lost technology that no one knows how they have worked in details. Maybe it is just how engineering evolution works?


it is just noise that does not really matter for your life (and mine too). This is pretty-well described in "Antifragile" by Nassim Taleb, consider reading.


Different people have different levels of what matters. If I didn't read the news, I wouldn't know that my country would search my phone at airport and prosecute for acts it didn't like. Or which countries are safe for get together with family. Or that I may lose the chance to renew my passport in third country and have to urgently renew it, otherwise risking a trip to hostile homeland and potential residency permit issues.


Check out iatrogenesis. There's no need to rely on apple watch data to become some drug addicted guy curing never existed diseases. That's not the metric you want to define whether you need meds and medical help at all.


giving a like for quoting Gogol and Akakiy Akakievich (I wish you could understand this russian wordplay and what's meaning about that nicknames and why they were chosen)


> I think in Russian this is supposed to be an obviously silly name, like “Poop Poopson”.

Is this correct? From the footnotes.


Nope.

>> Gogol makes much of Akaky's name in the opening passages, saying, "the circumstances were such that it was quite out of the question to give him any other name..." The literal meaning of the name Akaky, derived from the Greek, is "harmless" or "lacking evil", showing the humiliation it must have taken to drive his ghost to violence.[citation needed] His surname Bashmachkin, meanwhile, comes from the word 'bashmak', a type of shoe. It is used in an expression "быть под башмаком" which means to be "under someone's thumb" or to "be henpecked".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat#Interpretations

Literally in the first paragraph it states what when p. was born they used the church calendar to randomly choose the name but they all were sounding unpleasant so the mother chose to use the father's name. There are multiple saints with this name and they are celebrated on Name day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_liturgical_ca...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_day#Russia


yep, that's right. The idea of his nickname that he is really silly. Small man and no good at anything. If you want to go deeper and harsh synonyms he is like "shitty" man, doing shit and receiving shit. His nickname fully describes him like useless, small, no influence, clueless, talentless man. One from the great unwashed


ruby. that's quite interesting, maybe because it reads mostly like plain english?


Could you share the book name? Sounds interesting!


Based on their username, I would guess it's Ruby Quickly: Ruby and Rails for the Real World (ISBN 978-1932394740, Manning, 2006).


Am I the only one who expected something bigger in a major release? With Ruby 3 we had the whole “3x3” story and significant performance improvements. This release feels more like a minor version, something closer to 3.5.

I don’t want to downplay the work done by the maintainers on the contrary, huge thanks to them. But I do feel the version number is a bit misleading.

That said, the work on the ZJIT[1] compiler is massive. It’s serious, professional engineering, and definitely deserves respect.

[1]: https://rubykaigi.org/2025/presentations/maximecb.html


I think the major version change is more of a celebratory thing with Ruby being 30 years as of 2025.


Ruby doesn’t follow semver.


eh, it's just a little celebration. Let Matz have it.


One issue is gems which are locked `ruby < 4.0` which will now require updating, and releasing 4.0 instead of 3.5 was only done very recently.

For a more concrete example, the grpc gem locks Ruby versions (< 3.5), and they refuse to change it. So until they support the next Ruby version, we could test ruby-next by testing with a preview release. This worked for 3.4 and 3.5, but now doesn't work with 4.0 (bundler resolves 4.0-preview2 > 3.5, whereas we are able to do 3.5-preview1).

So unless I feel like doing a lot of grunt work (which I don't), I can't even test Ruby 4 in our app until they release a new version. And while I recognize this is an issue with the gem, it is a consequence of choosing to do 4.0.


For future readers, I mistakenly referenced the grpc gem; I was thinking of the gem `gruf` which is a grpc framework


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