It's super inside baseball, sorry

Background:

The boost community has managed to lose a large number of very technically proficient people who were tired of dealing with racism/sexism

JeanHeyd came to prominence a few years ago with some stellar open source libraries and gave some pretty good conference talks & joined the c++ committee.

Throughout his continued work in the c++ community, he ran into a lot of... unnecessary, non-technical feedback.

At some point, he got fed up with it all and created this.

Within the c++ community there are people who are known to be particularly toxic, fwiw, and some of this is calling them out specifically.

I think everyone who has attended a committee meeting knows who/what he is talking about.

There's also an additional bit, where he managed a discord server for one of his open source projects. When discussing Black Is Tech, he got racist pushback.

Hopefully this helps add a little bit of context. I don't think it's too important to understand the details. The tl;dr is that an extraordinary developer, speaker, committee member left the community because he found it to be hostile

That's a fact, and it's one engineers should be reckoning with. Your actions matter.