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> Remind your friend these comments are only left by a small vocal minority and is not representative of the project or its maintainers. Thanks for mentioning
by thevibesman 10y ago
> Remind your friend these comments are only left by a small vocal minority and is not representative of the project or its maintainers.
Thanks for mentioning this, I certainly will the next time. The last time this came up, this was not an attitude I had previously noticed, although did see a bunch on Hacker News the following week
> This is akin to not liking something because you don't like the people who already like it, despite how much you'd like it otherwise.
I would totally agree with this, but at the same time, while not a technical reason, if one works in primarily a single programming language I can imagine the nature of the community would be a legitimate factor to consider---in this case though as you point out, it would be an inaccurate opinion of the nature of the Rust community.
- pests 10y agoSorry for the late reply. To your last point, I agree slightly as well but my rebuttal would be that each person chooses how much and at what level to participate in a community they are in and which sub-communities they identify closer with. I can imagine a person being proficient and working in any language without the need for them to be involved with the community at all, or if they do need to interact do so in a read-only matter.