Bikeshedding from the outside is fine. As long as actual decision makers and productive project members aren't participating, bikeshedding can even be fun.

Be careful with that - some Rust team members are active around HN [1], some are even participating in the comment section for this post. So I guess we need to exclude them from the outsider-exclusive bikeshedding event.

I agree, bikeshedding can be fun, as long as it's not during a meeting.

[1] Steve Klabnik, I know you're going to see this - just wanted to say hi, I hope you're having a nice day :)

I'm doing okay, thanks! I'm not on any Rust teams, anymore, though.

There are some other folks around so your point isn't incorrect, only about me.

It's not really my place to warn you since it's not my problem, but I take exception to your assertion that the poster is in error. I think we should raise the bar, and check ourselves when being too critical. Try not to panic when other folk throw out ideas, even when you find fault in them. I didn't expect this to be a political topic, unlike abortion the last few days. Yeetsh!

I've been recently working on a new system that involves a custom IDL. We ended up adding a "[<=]" syntax, but we were worried it would be confusing to new developers. We realized it would make people happy to have an excuse to type smiley faces, though.

I guess folk here don't like puns.