• insomniac_lemon
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    191 year ago

    Love to see it. Not shocked, though.

    For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I’m interested in (it’s really great, and I haven’t seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it’s basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn’t finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it’s loading)

        For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the “grammar” of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don’t think it was an overreaction.

        @Serdan

        • BetoA
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          31 year ago

          Singular they has been used for something like 7 centuries.

          • insomniac_lemon
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            31 year ago

            Yes, that’s why I said it was at-least stupid. It isn’t even an uncommon thing in modern usage. We can accept it without it being a political thing, and it matters even less in an online community.

        • @Serdan@lemm.ee
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          21 year ago

          Oh, damn. Why do assholes gotta ruin everything?

          I’ve seen Nim before. It looks interesting, and I like the promise of a no-nonsense, performant language. I’m comfortable over here in dotnet land though. 😄

    • @Zoom
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      11 year ago

      That contributor had been detached from the language for a while (stopped maintaining his past contribs, withdrawed from community channels, etc.) and it looked like he needed an excuse to officially leave the community.