Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking

[SomeDude]

On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 03:37:46 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 01:48:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:14:42 +0200
>
>> Not to slam Rust or the Rust people, but I wouldn't call that 
>> an example
>> of "class" so much as "new age nazi": where everything is
>> incontrovertibly wonderful in it's own special way and any 
>> opinion
>> contrary to that is categorically invalid and not to be 
>> tolerated (or
>> must, at least, be first run through a rose-tinted castration 
>> filter).
>>
>> Referring to those two quotations as "throw[ing] random 
>> slander" is
>> outright hyperbole and very much an overreaction. I'm *very* 
>> glad that
>> we've been mature enough here to allow real, frank discussion 
>> and not
>> descend into the self-righteous, almost Orwellian, whitewash 
>> trap of
>> "happy...or else".
>
> "new age nazi", "castration filter", "almost orwellian"... talk 
> about overreaction.
>
> I think the intent of the moderator is to keep the level of 
> discussions high,and have some  not to rose-tint them. I expect 
> the main leaders of the D community to keep the same high 
> standards, not only on the m-l, but also on other forums and 
> bulletin boards, like reddit or HN. After all, it's important 
> to show that we all keep an open mind.

BTW, this post I saw on reddit and has been very well received.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1iydil/the_zed_shaw_phenomenon_a_look_at_bullies_in_tech/cb9berc