From what I've seen on the mailing lists, he seems a lot like Linus, where he's only rude if he thinks you should know better, or if you make an objectively stu

From what I've seen on the mailing lists, he seems a lot like Linus, where he's only rude if he thinks you should know better, or if you make an objectively stupid suggestion. I've regularly seen contributors being rude and insulting though. For example, I read a message from one contributor who said that safety features in modern languages are like a straitjacket, and are only useful to developers too stupid to write bug-free programs in C.