I agree with your point. Personal criticism should be extremely rare, and very carefully handled. A thread in a public forum is almost never the right place for

I agree with your point. Personal criticism should be extremely rare, and very carefully handled. A thread in a public forum is almost never the right place for it. Here is an entire essay touching on the subject: https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-01/optimism.md#readme https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/mast... And the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589200