This Week in D

Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 1 08:18:37 PST 2015


On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:34:48 +0000, ketmar wrote:

> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 21:52:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> You have 3 seconds to convince a random visitor that the site is worth
>> his/her time. If I am looking for a tool the last thing I want is to
>> try to download something from an emotional boy scouts club.
> that's great: less SJW and other unstable persons. if someone is judging
> *programming* *language* with 3-second look at the site... well, i'd
> better not have such person on board.

The pejorative denotation of the term "SJW", judging by explicit 
definitions, seems to describe something I've never seen. People getting 
offended at everything possible while ignoring social issues -- well, 
okay, the "Happy Holidays" vs "Merry Christmas" wars, but that's a 
typically conservative thing to get worked up about, and the SJW 
stereotype is liberal rather than conservative.

Judging by who is labeled an SJW, I'm one, and mentioning the existence 
of trans people in a context where their existence is relevant is 
sufficient to be labeled an SJW.

As for judging a programming language in three seconds...that's a bad 
analysis of the situation. I left Nim in part because Araq was, shall we 
say, less than friendly. That wasn't the only reason, but it was a 
contributing factor. A poor impression of the community might not suffice 
to drive anyone away, but it can be a factor that, combined with poor 
documentation and poor library support, causes someone to leave.


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