AFAICT he bluntly closed the issue that asks for CJK input support in kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/462 I understand there might be technical difficulties but his attitude is disappointingly bad.

> attitude is disappointingly bad.

You'd rather he catered to every feature request?

> So write a script to do it for you. I dont know what you are asking for here. I already told you glfw does not support XIM.

Thid is blatantly rude and dismissive.

I think people would rather he was polite. As much as I respect Mr.Goyal for his work, he does not have the right to talk down to other people because he maintains something.

Please don't make excuses for someone being rude because they're a FOSS developer. I've seen it so many times on here now.

What is considered rude is entirely subjective. For instance, I feel bringing up something after being told why it wouldn't work and wasting people's time is rude.

Perhaps you would have phrased it differently. But I don't buy the idea that every interaction should be sugar coated.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.

I don’t think there’s a need to sugarcoat every interaction, but at the same time, we’re but living beings, who all have our share of frustrations and bad days. It takes little to speak or write something a bit softer.

A GitHub issue is not equivalent to a direct message to the developer. Other people can see GitHub issues/feature requests, and sometimes, one of them steps up and does the legwork of fixing/implementing the thing.

> But I don't buy the idea that every interaction should be sugar coated.

Me neither, Kovid has every right to communicate whatever way he wants to, and nobody can take that right away from him.

Just as I have the right to consider him a rude [insert generic insult].

It is perfectly possible not to cater to every feature request, without being rude. A single sentence like this:

    I don't have the time, energy, desire, nor language knowledge to implement this feature.

conveys completely the same information as Kovid's comments, with the benefit of not being aggressive and demeaning.

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213946

There are a lot of references to Kovid's aggressive manner of communication here.

These are far better examples for the point that was being made regarding his behaviour Thanks!