I love PL mental masturbation as much as anyone else, but stuff like this is equivalent to an oil spill in a freshwater lake with 20 endangered species.

It's a tragedy of the commons. Posting such coments never feels harmful, but once they get above a certain level the whole community becomes filled with toxic fumes. This threshold is lower than it seems—the damage isn't only in the fumes your comment gives off, but in the encouragement it gives others to do the same.

Tragedy of the commons plus broken windows theory is not an auspicious combination, so we try to be proactive about asking people not to do this.

Not that I disagree, but I feel the HN comment section has become very predictable.

The user guide and language reference is very thin and it's missing the two critically distinctive features of Go, namely goroutines and channels.

It's a nice idea, but there's not a lot here to talk about.

Anyway, very cool project. I look forward to trying it out.

Edit: I'm assuming he's joking

Is that the gp's attitude toward PureScript, for example? Or Idris?

If that's the case, it must be nice/"interesting"/boring having found a "forever language". Look forward to seeing how that's going for him in 2030.