alt Hacker NewsReally controversial but my honest opinion: That's because programming languages, and its natural language counterpart, too, are nowadays increasing and more likely in becoming a political tool, rather than itself being a tech tool.
I observed this through observation of the attacks to Rust due to the huge presence of LGBT people.
Now while I'm pretty much straight myself, I don't reject LGBT people and don't want to partake in identity politics.
I just want things that works no matter what background you have, yet there are some people attacking Rust because of its inclusiveness nature.
And just like Linux is being perceived as nerdy and geeky and "gaming socks ready", the tokenization of things, and there attaching political meanings to it, are quickly coming to everything, so perhaps I'm too general here as well.
Let's say it is not political, but definitely adding more meanings to its technical origin and nature
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Why we have discussions about sexual orientation on programming languages? Could this really go any worse?
> I observed this through observation of the attacks to Rust due to the huge presence of LGBT people.
Never seen that before, but then again I'm not in the rust community.
> don't want to partake in identity politics.
If you write Rust, or let AI write rust, do you have to partake in the identity politics?
The internet is full of memes and jokes on how shitty Java and Java Script. Yet it came never up at work. Never stopped me from writing java.
Just like Emacs vs Vim, I'm just using Nano. Never had any discussion IRL. And at work everyone uses Idea.
It's hard for me to see writing Rust somehow gets you into partaking in identity politics. Did that actually happen to you, or something that you are afraid of?