I just can’t understand someone who turns a relatively benign question into a political position rant.
It literally makes no sense unless he has mental health issues.
Just look at what happened with the Rust foundation. It probably guides a lot of his rant.
That does not follow. Languages as large and successful as Python and as small and up-and-coming as Zig have had foundations for years, despite both having a primary lead developer and tastemaker.
This rant really does come off as an embittered “I refuse to leave my project for future generations because I hate them.”
Again you're making this up. That's not what the message reads. It literally says the future of Nim is assured because there is both funding and people working on it. He says he doesn't want to partake in community building because ...stuff happened with the diversity mob. It turns out that they've been preaching acceptance while harassing people with different upbringing online.
I think you're giving him far too much credit. His rant was an irrelevant screed about racism and sexism with alt-right dogwhistles like "clownworld", not anything about foundation mismanagement, which is what is happening to Rust.
This response from Andreas Rumpf, the designer and BDFL, instantly killed my interest. I cannot unsee and ignore what I just read. (https://imgur.com/a/aGLOkfl)
However technically interesting/beautiful this looks, I do not wish to associate myself with a project who's BDFL's world view contradicts mine so much.
His response instantly set a toxic tone for himself and the work he represents.
It is very unfortunate but ultimately we're all humans and just as it is fine for Andreas to set the tone and govern his project the way he wants, it is fine for me to be picky about our friends and relationships and projects I like to associate myself with.
Buh.