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I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world". > Instead of sitting on such a

I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world". > Instead of sitting on such a high horse the more constructive approach is to outline the shortcomings, implement the solution, and contribute it upstream. That's not what I see though. That's what the "Elm is wrong" post did though. It outlined the shortcomings and showed how it was impossible to implement the solution because of somewhat arbitrary limitations to the extensible record system. The tone was way off and made it an unpleasant read, but valid points were made.

dkarapetyan 10y ago
> I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world". Those are your words, not mine. My comparison wasn't about ignorance but of a different value system that is consistently substituted in discussions about programming languages and the substitution is then swept under the rug. The substitution being as I said theoretical concision and expression vs more easily understandable boilerplate and pragmatism.