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Re:Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited type... by dang on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:09PM (#17790370)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Programming language flamewars are also definitely not welcome. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited type... by Baal on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:46AM (#17794694)
I don’t see any personal attack. Can you quote? I don’t even know nor care about the identity of people here.

As for flamewars, what are you even talking about? I have not said a single thing in favour of any language. Have you read the thread?

Re:Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited type... by dang on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:48PM (#17795018)
This is a personal attack: "It seems you don’t understand (or more likely you don’t want to understand)."

This is bullying: "Prove Rust is controlling critical systems _today_ ".

And this breaks the site guideline against calling names in arguments, as well as returning to personal attack: "Otherwise, please stop spreading bullshit".

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comments need to be considerably more respectful if you want to keep posting here. There are plenty of ways to express your views about programming languages thoughtfully, including if you disagree with someone. It's not hard, if you take the spirit of this site to heart. We'd appreciate it if you'd do that.

Re:Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited type... by Baal on Monday August 27, 2018 @06:26AM (#17850537)
Well, it seems you consider a “personal attack” any comment directed to another person, even if it is meaningful for the discussion and in-context. Your own guidelines ask for maintaining an identity (“On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to.”); yet you don’t want any comments questioning anyone.

As for the rest: I don’t see how asking for proof can be considered “bullying”.

Please review the definition of bullying, because you are trivializing it and therefore hurting actual victims of bullying.

Thank you on behalf of them.

Finally, since it seems HN are in the business of deleting fair comments, I will leave the site and do my best warn others of what is happening here.

Good luck.

Re:Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited type... by steveklabnik on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:48PM (#17790262)
> (or more likely you don’t want to understand)

I'm not really gonna bother to reply when there's accusations like this.

I do understand everything you're saying. We're not in disagreement about the context. I (or more accurately, bluejekyll, we're talking about the same thing) did provide such a citation, you can take it or leave it.