Amiko: A desperate virtue signalling attempt

After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko. I don’t want to mince words here, so I’ll talk straight: I think this is a vain attempt at virtue signalling, and will ultimately end up achieving very little. The Amiko project has started out this fork by renaming all the Rails things into Amiko flavoured things. They have amiko-pack, amiko-view, and so on. All the rails commands are now amiko commands. The structure of the framework remains the same, so far. The momentum behind the Rails framework itself is monumental and to get people to switch from that to a renamed alternative is an exercise in futility. The not-so-benevolent dictator for life said absolutely atrocious things about at least one particular group of people, and just for that Amiko’s proponents want you to change gem 'rails' in your Gemfile to gem…