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> All this stuff is mentioned in the blog post itself, some of it even in the opening TLDR. Yes. And...it was a surprise, people found the blog post's contents
by scottlamb 4y ago
> All this stuff is mentioned in the blog post itself, some of it even in the opening TLDR.
Yes. And...it was a surprise, people found the blog post's contents inconsistent with the HN title "Uber Uses Zig". People identify Zig as the language, not the toolchain, in part for the reasons I just described. You mentioned the website describes the toolchain, but I don't think it did it as well as it could.
As the VP of community for Zig, do you want to be telling everyone on HN that they're wrong? Or do you want to be welcoming, to build a Zig website that helps people quickly understand what Zig is, etc.?
- pverghese 4y agoYou are being unnecessarily antagonistic.
- scottlamb 4y agoIf you say so. Fortunately I'm not in charge of community relations. Looks like the person who is just took to twitter to complain, generalizing this discussion to American culture. https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1528807119402713088 https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1528807119402713088 > Peak american culture when HN commenters only read the title of a submission and act surprised when you refuse to spoonfeed them information present in the second paragraph of the linked article." For the record if the complaint is about me, I did read the blog post before commenting, and I happened to already have the context that Zig has a nice C toolchain. But I'm stunned that someone with that title is responding in this way to people who are surprised about that and saying Zig's website points it out, when it really doesn't very well. And then generalize to complaining about American culture. That escalated quickly...talk about alienating.
- avgcorrection 4y agoI wonder what nationality one is supposed to associate with talking behind people's back in public.