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Posted Oct 20, 2025 20:18 UTC (Mon) by daroc (editor, #160859)
In reply to: Alternatives by bmur
Parent article: Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership

LWN is currently working on preparing an article about the recent RubyGems debacle; perhaps we should leave off this discussion and wait to have arguments in the comments there.

Joe really did an excellent deep-dive on the topic. I think everyone will be pleased with the article once it's published.

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Posted Oct 20, 2025 20:33 UTC (Mon) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (3 responses)

Or, you know, just not have arguments in the comments at all. Radical idea, I know, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case it caught on. 🙂

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Posted Oct 21, 2025 8:15 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (2 responses)

Next thing you are going to suggest we should stop having the same arguments over and over again in circles in both politics and software religious wars like vim vs. Emacs, huh?

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Posted Oct 21, 2025 9:27 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Pffft... you're all wrong. JOE is the best.

(my first editor was 'Tasword' on the Amstrad, Tasword had Wordstar-ish UI... I couldn't get on with Vi or Emacs, but JOE with its similarly wordstar-ish UI just felt right).

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Posted Oct 25, 2025 19:08 UTC (Sat) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

Asking people not to argue about Vim vs. Emacs would be like asking people not to argue about St. Louis Cardinals vs. the Cubs, or Beatles vs. Stones. I would never do that, so long as folks kept it civil.