Sure, it's well known to English-speaking natives. This library was written by a Swedish consulting firm.

"Farmer" is even more degrading in Swedish ("bonde"), to the point where you avoid using it even for actual farmers and say "agriculturalist" ("jordbrukare") instead.

But it's not an insult towards actual farmers, it's an insult towards an impostor that pretends they're doing valuable work while all they do is the opposite and they merely throw time at a problem, creating illusion of value.

I'm saying this because I'm raised on a farm, I was always proud of it, I still do it as a hobby (and I love my crops) and I never, ever considered it an insult when I heard a term "farmer" or "peasant".

Nowadays, I read about people being offended in my stead, giving themselves the right to insult other people, like author of microwebsockets.

Is there a world in which haters could hate without using excuses such as "it insults farmers"?

I'm one of the farmers, I am not insulted, I do have the right to say this and point the attention at the *real* problem - and it's fake developers.

I join you in these sentiments - born-n-bred on the farm, still there, and hacking software since 1981!

My most regular outburst of swearing is about 'dev-ops' and lack of engineering discipline and occurs almost daily :)

Yeah a "farmer" is not a literal farmer. It's slang for uneducated people aka peasants.

You are just digging yourself in a bigger hole :) Modern farmers are not anywhere close to uneducated peasants.

It's a poorly translated word written in a haste. A better translation would be "red neck" (I think?). This is translated from my inner Swedish thoughts and we don't have Californian wokeness here (especially not down here in Skåne). But instead of finding a new word I reformulated that section everyone is so upset about. It's fascinating how easy it is for internet people to assume worst intent in everything, and look for things to be offended by, rather than to read between the lines and adjust ones interpretation based on context.

If you read the section, applying context from what the project is about and where it is used, you should pretty easily grasp the overall idea that is: "compression sucks and is incredibly inefficient". It would be a much more interesting thread if people took that message and argued against/for it, technically. But now we are here arguing about some word usage that might be offensive if interpreted in a very literal way. Congratulations; we have reached peak cancel culture. I hope you enjoy it while it lasts.