It seems that we thoroughly caught the interwebs with surprise by announcing that Merb is being merged into Rails 3. 96% of the feedback seems to be very positive. People incredibly excited about us closing the rift and emerging as a stronger community.

But I wanted to take a few minutes to address some concerns of the last 4%. The people who feel like this might not be such a good idea. And in particular, the people who feel like it might not be such a good idea because of various things that I've said or done over the years.

Wow, from the bombshell department comes the news that Rails and Merb will be merging to form Rails 3. It seems the Rails and Merb teams have acknowledged that there is good in both frameworks and that they can be combined into a singular web framework.

I’ve been playing with Scheme lately. I spent a few months learning it in college, but am coming back to it a bit now.

As an exercise, I sometimes do something in both Ruby and Scheme. I can’t tell which I like better, for simple things. Ruby?

The interesting note is that you can do basically the exact same thing in Ruby as in Scheme.