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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by jimmy1 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:27PM (#17184560)
> To an outsider

> Russ

> throwaway

Something tells me you aren't really an outsider.

Anyways,

> community is against it, then it gets accepted by the Committee

Is this your primary gripe? Because this has happened pretty consistently in the history of almost all open source languages. Think of how many JSRs were hotly contested, only to be accepted. Open source does not mean democratic development, and thankfully so because you might have ended up with this https://i.redd.it/7t1p88ct13ez.jpg

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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by dikaiosune on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:35AM (#17185803)
FWIW, I read "To an outsider..." to mean "if you are reading this on HN and aren't involved in the community, this might seem like" as opposed to "I am pretending to be an outsider, let me tell you what about my perspective."
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