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In the c++ community[1] someone did just publicly announce that they were tired of the hostility so... yes https://thephd.github.io/the-community# https://thep
by wrsh07 6y ago
In the c++ community[1] someone did just publicly announce that they were tired of the hostility so... yes
https://thephd.github.io/the-community# https://thephd.github.io/the-community#
[1] if you think this is "just a c++ problem" you're going to be very disappointed
- skohan 6y agoWhat are the author's actual complaints about the C++ community? Maybe I am lacking context, but it's extremely difficult for me to understand it by reading this blog post.
- wrsh07 6y agoIt's super inside baseball, sorry Background: The boost community has managed to lose a large number of very technically proficient people who were tired of dealing with racism/sexism JeanHeyd came to prominence a few years ago with some stellar open source libraries and gave some pretty good conference talks & joined the c++ committee. Throughout his continued work in the c++ community, he ran into a lot of... unnecessary, non-technical feedback. At some point, he got fed up with it all and created this. Within the c++ community there are people who are known to be particularly toxic, fwiw, and some of this is calling them out specifically. I think everyone who has attended a committee meeting knows who/what he is talking about. There's also an additional bit, where he managed a discord server for one of his open source projects. When discussing Black Is Tech, he got racist pushback. Hopefully this helps add a little bit of context. I don't think it's too important to understand the details. The tl;dr is that an extraordinary developer, speaker, committee member left the community because he found it to be hostile That's a fact, and it's one engineers should be reckoning with. Your actions matter.