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There's things a reasonable and mature person doesn't dangle knowing that it's unfruitful. I'll give you an example of my impression of their comment. You ask

There's things a reasonable and mature person doesn't dangle knowing that it's unfruitful. I'll give you an example of my impression of their comment. You ask your child to clean their room when you leave for work. When you come back, you find them having not cleaned it. In retaliation, you say "I had spoken to the baker to make you your favourite cake for this weekend, now I'm going to call them and ask them to no longer make it". The cake is "part of the public domain" of whatever thing they were working on, because if they were working on a private codebase nobody would care if they wrote it in D or E or G. Read what you may of it. To deal with emotionally manipulative people in our lives, we've learnt to identify cues like this one. There's a reason why when angry the best advice is to bite one's tongue.

mort96 3y ago
Okay. Say you're in a situation where you have publicly talked about doing a soon-to-be-public project in Rust. Then, something happens and you no longer want to use Rust. What do you do? Keep it secret that you have reconsidered your choice of language? Why? Honestly, the only emotionally manipulative thing I see here is you. You're trying to make something huge out of the simple statement of "this is making me not want to use Rust for the project I was gonna use Rust for". Someone choosing a different programming language is not a Big Deal.
- 1000bestlives 3y ago
  Yes, it is definitely best to throw your tantrum internally.
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  - mort96 3y ago
    The change of language is going to be revealed once the project goes public though. What then? What are you supposed to answer when people start asking why you didn't use the language you said you'd use? This is so incredibly psychotic, you'd have to walk on eggshells and make sure to never publicly talk about your choice of technology stack to not upset you people. No, people are allowed to talk publicly about what language they pick for their projects, and they're allowed to publicly disclose when they reconsider. Anything else is literally insane.

mort96 3y ago

Okay. Say you're in a situation where you have publicly talked about doing a soon-to-be-public project in Rust. Then, something happens and you no longer want to use Rust. What do you do? Keep it secret that you have reconsidered your choice of language? Why? Honestly, the only emotionally manipulative thing I see here is you. You're trying to make something huge out of the simple statement of "this is making me not want to use Rust for the project I was gonna use Rust for". Someone choosing a different programming language is not a Big Deal.

1000bestlives 3y ago
Yes, it is definitely best to throw your tantrum internally.
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- mort96 3y ago
  The change of language is going to be revealed once the project goes public though. What then? What are you supposed to answer when people start asking why you didn't use the language you said you'd use? This is so incredibly psychotic, you'd have to walk on eggshells and make sure to never publicly talk about your choice of technology stack to not upset you people. No, people are allowed to talk publicly about what language they pick for their projects, and they're allowed to publicly disclose when they reconsider. Anything else is literally insane.