[jbackus]

Yeah, I don't remember any of the Ruby tooling ecosystem maintainers having nice things to say about the various syntax changes they've added over the years. I don't blame them.

These changes are always justified with a hand wave and a reference to "developer happiness" and ergonomics. I think that justification is seen as insulting when all the static/dynamic analysis tools obviously actually deliver a lot of value to Ruby devs, and yet the basic tooling to support this ecosystem (robustly parsing, traversing, annotating, rewriting, and unparsing an AST) is not provided by the language.