Comment by mirashii

Comment by mirashii a day ago

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> Maybe, or maybe the fact that Zig is a small independent project with limited resources has also something to do with it

Or, maybe it's this kind of redirection and evidence of a victim complex. Part of the reason that there's a patina of anti-Rust sentiment includes the dismissive attitude and swipes you, a the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, take towards Rust and Rust developers by writing about topics you aren't involved in and don't have a solid grasp of.

https://kristoff.it/blog/raii-rust-linux/ https://lobste.rs/s/hxerht/raii_rust_linux_drama#c_gbn1q8

Or similarly, comments like this one in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=44994749

littlestymaar a day ago

Loris really isn't a person worth engaging with honestly, don't waste your time.

  • hardwaresofton 21 hours ago

    Personal attacks like this have no place on HN.

    • littlestymaar 14 hours ago

      Then Loris should have been perma-banned long ago. Until this is done, we'll have to warn people about engaging with him…

mirashii a day ago

I just wanted to clarify that I point this out to say that there was a real opportunity in this thread to try to push back on the language wars perception. To me, good community management would be taking the opportunity to say:

  * Sorry you feel that way, we try not to foster an inclusive environment that avoids language flamewars and negativity towards other languages
  * Some specific examples of policies that are enacted in community spaces towards that end (e.g. some large programming language discord servers have specific rules against low effort language bashing content and memes)
  * Take the opportunity to link back to positive things that the Zig team has said about Rust and places where folks have recommended it.
Instead, we got a shallow dismissal and redirection, which unfortunately starts to look like a pattern, especially when coming from a person who's in a leadership position in the community being discussed.