[riffraff]

I don't think matz was ever unaware of how important rails is. But what I assume patio11 meant is that most of the japanese devs may not have that as a priority, changing the priorities of a single person would not change much.

[masklinn]

Although it's a pretty important single person, and may bring much greater awareness of the "westerner" ruby community among core developers.

[Volpe]

Yeah because Matz never really left japan, or spoke to "westerner" developers before. So this will be a HUGE change... seriously?