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Re:Dear JavaScript by pcwalton on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:29PM (#13108439)
> Is HN really that bad?

I recently had someone here say I should be given "a prison sentence of several decades" for working on Rust. And no, they were not joking.

To be fair, the comment in question got flagged off the site, but the point remains that it very much does happen here.

Re:Dear JavaScript by SamReidHughes on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:25PM (#13118845)
Whew! And by working on Rust you've already committed years of hard labor, you should at least get credit for time served.