Positive emotional energy

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 12 15:45:47 UTC 2021


On Monday, 12 April 2021 at 14:13:06 UTC, James Lu wrote:
> Today, Sawyer X stepped down from Perl Steering Committee and 
> Perl Core Developers due to emotional distress from arguments: 
> https://perl.topicbox.com/groups/perl-core/T7a4f1bf9e069641f
>
> The BDFL of Python, Guido van Rossum, stepped down for similar 
> reasons, saying something controversial and getting massively 
> bullied about it.
>
> ---
>
> How does this relate to D? D has the most emotionally positive 
> and vibrant language communities I've been in. People express 
> gratitude and use humble and positive language.
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu [wrote 
> recently](https://forum.dlang.org/post/s4sld1$lfo$1@digitalmars.com)
>
>> Nice idea, thanks for sharing.
>> [...]
>> Defining a systematic library for that stuff would be pretty 
>> awesome and would cut down a lot of duplication from Phobos.
>
> Note how positive the language is. It makes me want to share 
> other ideas about testing I have for D Language.
>
> Let's keep D positive.

Very important point. I think we have a pretty good balance. If 
your ideas are good you'll know about it, and if they're no good, 
you'll know about it, but in a respectful way! ☀


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