New Years Resolution: when I talk about technologies, I will avoid demeaning the users of those technologies. I will also avoid calling technologies "dead", "dying" or other words meant purely to demoralize users of the technology.
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And people usually know already when they are on unpopular stuff. Maybe no need to rub it in their faces all the time, dunno
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Punching up is okay tho
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no, it isn't.
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calling a technology "shitty", or whatever, just because it's popular, doesn't make that okay. C++ and Go developers are people too >.<
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Punching up to C++ is okay (because they know they are better than all of us ;). Go is on gray territory (they are in lol no generics area, but have job offers thrown in their face all the time based on what I've been seeing)
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No, it is not. I am a C++ programmer, and it hurt when people in the rust irc made fun of it (especially since I usually knew them well, and because they were using very, very outdated knowledge). There are people on the other side of the computer screen.
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you can have useful and specific criticism without insulting people who like the language.
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Yeah this was mostly my point. Also, repeating the same (not exactly accurate) jingoist criticism over and over can feel insulting especially if it comes from a bunch of people at once (like your IRC example).
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