DevNews S1E2: Ruby, Chrome DevTools, Mozilla Layoffs, Hello Weather, and React 17
Tags: discuss, meta, news, podcast
Published: 2020-08-13 19:03:35

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title: DevNews S1E2: Ruby, Chrome DevTools, Mozilla Layoffs, Hello Weather, and React 17
series: DevNews-Season-1
published: true
description: New episode of the show about the latest topics in the world of tech — hosted by Saron Yitbarek, Josh Puetz, and myself!
tags: discuss, meta, news, podcast
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### There's a brand new episode of DevNews out today 👀

{% podcast https://dev.to/devnews/s1-e2-ruby-chrome-devtools-mozilla-layoffs-hello-weather-and-react-17 %} 


### In this installment, [Saron](https://dev.to/saronyitbarek) 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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I hope you tune in to the DevNews podcast, where we cut through the impossibly noisy news cycle to surface developer stories that impact many of us in this space. 🗞️🗞️🗞️ 

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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](https://dev.to/devnews/s1-e1-github-roadmap-twitter-hack-tiktok-algorithm-and-gpt-3) from last week!_

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