Why Phobos is cool

[Clarice]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 03:25:45 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 21:40:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/30/2020 1:33 AM, Chris wrote:
>>> Personally I think that the sentence was not really rude or 
>>> insulting but maybe polemical, so within the range of a 
>>> passionate and heated debate, I'd say, even in a professional 
>>> environment.
>>
>> Calling someone "spoiled" is rude and unprofessional. Period.
>>
>>
>>> IMO, it's neither fair nor good style to single out one 
>>> sentence from a long post and dismiss the whole post because 
>>> you consider the sentence to be rude or unprofessional.
>>
>> People who want their message heard need to post in a 
>> professional manner. I don't care about the opinions of rude 
>> people. I don't care to work with them, even if they are good. 
>> I am hardly alone in this - pretty much nobody in the 
>> professional world responds to rude messages.
>>
>>
>>> And since "professional demeanor" is a flexible term one can 
>>> always change the criteria as one sees fit (another one is 
>>> "unspecific" which has become a rather unspecific term too :).
>>
>> I recommend that anyone who has difficulties understanding 
>> what politeness is get a copy of Emily Post's book on business 
>> etiquette.
>>
>>
>> Ill-mannered people find themselves shut out of all kinds of 
>> opportunities, and they rarely figure out why.
>
> Well said! This is especially applicable for healthy societies 
> and communities.
>
> Unrelated to this, but around a month ago I was discussing with 
> a friend of mine who is a psychiatrist on how common narcissism 
> has become these days and is being mistaken for boldness and 
> how leadership roles are being taken by such people and how 
> meritocratic communities tend to expell narcists and 
> kakistocracy communities tend to favor them, especially if it 
> involves money.
>
> If we do not point out and stand up against their wrong doings, 
> they would think they would think they are doing a favor. If we 
> do, they won't realize their mistake but would assume personal 
> grudge!

For what it's worth, while I often disagree with Chris' current 
phrasing and diction, he does have valid points, and I think he 
has good intentions too. (Frustration, like stress, may be a 
negative or a positive motivator!) It would probably benefit us 
all if leadership scheduled a video conference Q&A, or perhaps 
something more informal, e.g. an 'official' BeerConf, as textual 
discussions are more prone to faulty and uncharitable inferences.

And so that this post is somewhat on-topic, I also like a beefier 
stdlib. I don't need an HTTP server or graphics, but containers, 
generic algorithms, protocols, data formats, etc. are all very 
welcome; Phobos satisfies a good chunk of this list.