I'm sorry that my general frustration with most of the comments in this thread materialised as being directed toward you specifically. That wasn't my intention.

I'm sorry that my general frustration with most of the comments in this thread materialised as being directed toward you specifically. That wasn't my intention. People (not necessarily you or I) are going to be annoyed though. And this is fine. A tool doesn't need to be the most popular alternative to "thrive" or to "win" (quoting some other commenter now). The thought process for most people in this thread seems to be: 1. Get mad when their "freedoms" (dangerous synchronous FFI) are taken away. 2. Complain, because the programmer knows best (ego/hubris). 3. Complain further about "the community" when their egos aren't pandered to. If the maintainers relinquished their ideals, we'd have a language as dangerous as most of the alternatives. Frankly, I'm not interested in a "community" where everyone gets along but the software is always broken. I need my stuff to work. To you, specifically, I appreciate that you tried to keep the discussion amicable. Thank you for that, and again I'm sorry.