I fully stand behind my "Biased people like yourself don't belong in tech" statement from back then. If you follow the thread you'll see that this person mostly just wanted to hate. I tried to reason with them and they refused to participate.
I, or anybody else, owe them no grace beyond a certain point.
Where do you draw the line when confronted with people who already dislike you because they put you in a camp you don't even belong to but you still tried to reason with them to make them see nuance?
Skewing reality to match your bias makes for boring discussions. But again, I stand behind what I said then. And I refuse to be called a zealot. I don't even use Rust as actively; I use the right tool for the job and Rust was that on multiple projects.
If you're not interested in the context then please don't make hasty conclusions and misrepresent history. If you want to continue that old discussion here, I'm open to it.
EDIT: I would also love it if people just gave up the "zealot" label altogether. It's one of the ways to brand people and make them easier to hate or insult. I don't remember ever calling any opponent from the 'other side' a C/C++ zealot, for what it's worth. And again, if people want to actually discuss, I am all for it. But this is not what I have witnessed, historically.
I, or anybody else, owe them no grace beyond a certain point.
Where do you draw the line when confronted with people who already dislike you because they put you in a camp you don't even belong to but you still tried to reason with them to make them see nuance?
Skewing reality to match your bias makes for boring discussions. But again, I stand behind what I said then. And I refuse to be called a zealot. I don't even use Rust as actively; I use the right tool for the job and Rust was that on multiple projects.
If you're not interested in the context then please don't make hasty conclusions and misrepresent history. If you want to continue that old discussion here, I'm open to it.
EDIT: I would also love it if people just gave up the "zealot" label altogether. It's one of the ways to brand people and make them easier to hate or insult. I don't remember ever calling any opponent from the 'other side' a C/C++ zealot, for what it's worth. And again, if people want to actually discuss, I am all for it. But this is not what I have witnessed, historically.