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By "people" you mean a couple of mentally unstable people who haven't contributed a tiny fraction to the development of the language that Crockford has. But hey

• alexc05 10y ago
  Right, but did you give a shit about nodevember yesterday? If I examine their relative contributions to JavaScript it does appear to be metaphorically like the deckhand on the Santa Maria refusing to share the conference stage with Galileo, or "Storm trooper #3" being fed up with Mark Hamill. But maybe they're people who have specifically contributed to nodevember. I mean, one of them has been on the hansel-minutes podcast. One of the complainants is from Austin tx, and the others list San Francisco. Which are both pretty far from Nashville. Anyways, I'm not sure any of that matters, it looks a little like a case of long distance bullying against someone who the conference attendees likely could learn something from, by people from whom, I think they couldn't. I mean, as professional programmers, we all know a few bright ones who have some aspects of socially awkward. We all know at least one grumpy old man (some of us are him!). It really seems to me like a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water, but I didn't care about nodevember yesterday and I don't today. I would definitely go to a Crockford talk though. I disagree with the decision to remove him as a speaker. Privately I'm annoyed, frustrated, angry, worried about things like the authoritarianism of it all. But ultimately, I respect nodevember's freedom to make their conference the way they want it. We can all move on from this one I think.