I wouldn't say my post is gratuitous criticism. I believe my post describes the motives behind a sizable number of such projects. If that is not the case with Hyper, and the Hyper developers are aware and conscious that they made a bizarre language choice and are just trying to have fun with it (although they do seem to be recommending that random people use this as production, non-toy software), then that's great, more power to them. There's no reason for them to be offended or unsure of themselves based on my comments.