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Re:Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig' by lifthrasiir on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:39AM (#26293328)
That doesn't justify unrelated rants in the mailing list though.
Re:Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig' by spacemanmatt on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:43AM (#26293353)
He is exactly a cultural leader in the space of operating system distributions. I think this is a prime example of using organizational system leverage for profound technical impact.
Re:Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig' by lifthrasiir on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:55AM (#26293428)
If that "culture" means that someone (but not everyone) is allowed to say unrelated things in unrelated venues, sure, I agree that it would have a great impact, negatively.

Seriously, you can instead say that the description for newer programming languages tends to be subjective (which is IMO true). Then the discussion about regulating descriptions can follow. Instead you have this useless rant. The original link is correctly flagged, not because it is anti-Rust, but because it has no substantial values to discuss at all.