Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 05:39:08 +0200
"SomeDude" <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com> wrote:

> 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

I don't doubt that. Intolerance of negative opinions is extremely
popular these days (something I've always found inherently
self-contradictory and hypocritical).

If you have an opinion on something that doesn't amount to "it is
good", then yes, you are seen by *many* people as being bad person who
exhibits the sorts of ideas and beliefs that (slippery slope fallacy
here) lead to atrocities (making such beliefs therefore unacceptable
viewpoints - or at least unacceptable to speak and write).