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constant drama. Travis Brown (a very sociopathic and toxic, straight up unstable person) tried to cancel John A De Goes, total shitshow ensued. FYI, Travis has
by practice9 4y ago
constant drama.
Travis Brown (a very sociopathic and toxic, straight up unstable person) tried to cancel John A De Goes, total shitshow ensued. FYI, Travis has created scripts to auto-dox people on Twitter if he doesn't like them. Travis also left Scala ecosystem after lashing out at literally everybody including Martin Odersky
Reason: De Goes invited a speaker to his LambdaConf conference, without knowing that speaker was involved in white nationalism (US). I don't remember the exact details, but it was a huge scandal
De Goes tried to reason that all kinds of people should be included in the tech conferences irrespective of their political background. Being stubborn as he is, I don't think he ever apologised. De Goes was later booted from cats project, one of the reasons why he started Zio.
IMO De Goes is a great project leader still, and many Scala devs are moving to Zio.
- nickcox 4y agoI might be misremembering but wasn't there a pro slavery angle as well?
- auggierose 4y agoJesus. Yeah, I will stay with TypeScript.
- nablaone 4y agoKeep on posting. Me waiting for season 2.
- practice9 4y agoYou're joking but this stuff has been going on for longer than most Netflix shows :D
- VirusNewbie 4y agosmall edit: JDG did not invite the speaker, they applied to an anonymous call for papers, once it was accepted, it was later revealed he was Moldbug. JDG, after polling other under represented speakers, decided not to rescind the invitation.