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S1:E2 - Ruby, Chrome DevTools, Mozilla Layoffs, Hello Weather, and React 17

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In this installment, Saron and I cover several recent news stories that are relevant in the developer community right now:

• The upcoming release of RBS, a new Ruby 3 language for type signatures—you won't have to change Ruby code to type check now!
• GitHub's announcement that it's running Ruby 2.7 in production.
• Chrome DevTools' new CSS Overview (you'll now be able to see things like colors, fonts, media queries, and unused declarations directly from within DevTools! 🎉).
• The recent round of layoffs at Mozilla, which means a reduced investment in developer tooling and many talented folks out of work—for now.

Saron and I also chatted with two guests on this episode:

• Jonas Downey (Design Lead at Basecamp, and co-creator of the Hello Weather app) about what it’s like to be an indie iOS developer "working under Apple's 800-pound gorilla rule".
• Dan Abramov (Software Engineer at Facebook, creator of Redux, and co-author of the Create React App) about the newest version of React and how the core team thinks about major version releases.

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Thanks to @levisharpe for producing & mixing the show, my co-host in this episode, @saronyitbarek, and @joshpuetz for editorial oversight. Catch Josh hosting in the series premiere from last week!

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