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Ask HN: Technology-Based Cults?
Some programming languages and tools seem to have, and this is meant in the most loving way possible, cult-like followings. This probably interests me because any unknown technology of sufficient advancement feels like magic.
I was wondering, do any of you know of a technology where the following actually acknowledges or jokes that it is a cult and leans into it?
Closest thing I know of to this is Temple OS, though I feel like there must be a programming language (maybe one of the lisps?) or library in this kind of mindspace.
- h2odragon 6y agothe Perl community used to make some effective jokes about their religious aspects. "Cult" implies a lack of transparency, and often antisocial motives or at least outcomes; there's probably some of those running that we won't find out about for a while yet.
- 0dayz 6y agoI think hivemind/zealots is a more appropriate word for what you're describing. From scale 1-10 I would rank: 9 suckless / cat-v 7 KISS community 6.5 *BSD community (they got a 0.5+ for how overly smug they are about it) 6 FOSS community 6 Rust & Go community 3 anti-systemd crowd The C/C++/Java community would've made the list around 10-15 years ago, these days their zealousness is pretty tame compared what it used to be.