"Honestly, I got so lost in the article that I'm not sure that I understand what the point was." You're 7 years late to a dead controversy. If you were in the

"Honestly, I got so lost in the article that I'm not sure that I understand what the point was." You're 7 years late to a dead controversy. If you were in the middle of it, it would make a lot more sense as rebuttals to specific complaints made at the time. Since the Internet Does Not Forget, perhaps those complaints will even come back up in this post, in which case the article may make more sense in hindsight. But I'm not going to be the necromancer. If you want to do your own thread necromancy, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=0&prefix=true&query=wasabi&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=0&prefix=true&... should pretty much get you there, if you ignore the articles that are about the condiment. (And the top one is something else, too; FogCreek Wasabi is a compiler, not a storage platform.)