Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

One of the biggest problem with Rails as a code base is that there are too many "band-aid" fixes, too few people thinking about big picture

I’m far from an apologist, as you know, but that’s the nature of a codebase that’s being actively relied on in production by tons of people.

I think it's more of a symptom of not enough people being given time to work on it

Well, it’s open source, so “given” is tricky to define.

Allowed time during their paid work hours is what I mean.

Ah, yeah, I think that’s the case for most open source stuff. Outside of companies that have made OSS their business, not many get to do it.

Right. That's the problem.

It's a tough intersection of knowledge of codebase, desire to fix, and enough time to work on issues.