https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...
And after that three months suspension BS drama Tim just got back to work on Python. Saintly.
btw. made me stop having a favourite programming language.
I came to quote this very article. This raised my eyebrows a lot when I originally read it. I always thought that DEVELOPING A DAMN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE is inherently apolitical and strongly meritocratic endeavor. Boy, how naive I was...
I sometimes wonder if people-who-think-of-solving-problems-not-creating-them-defensively should secede from the rest of the Internet.
They can keep the tools & remix new ones with LLMs. The rest of us can hang out in some tiny corner talking civilly.