Ruby Weekly issue 801 curates articles and links from the Ruby ecosystem. Highlights include a retrospective on Ruby's enduring appeal covering features like refinements, numbered parameters, Ruby LSP, Steep, and YJIT performance gains. Other featured pieces cover a year of Rails configuration patterns, inbound email handling with Fuik, safely dropping columns in Rails, and a comparison of Ruby vs Java vs TypeScript for building a Claude plugin. Ecosystem news includes the Blastoff Rails conference, the 2026 Rails Community Survey, Google I/O's Modern Web Guidance for coding agents, and a piece on AI-assisted engineer burnout.
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