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You've described a number of the Django old guard. That is definitely not limited to him. Remember the gendered pronoun brouhaha against libuv? And no, Jacob i
by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
You've described a number of the Django old guard. That is definitely not limited to him. Remember the gendered pronoun brouhaha against libuv?
And no, Jacob is already bitching about pg's essay on his Twitter.
- crassus 13y agoHe was part of pronoun-gate? That was one of the stupidest, most counter-productive brouhahas of all time. Something tells me that purging your best devs for being insufficiently progressive is not going to attract more females.
- jsmthrowaway 13y agoAlex Gaynor was the catalyst for pronoun-gate, and reflects a prevailing attitude among a large number of the founding and old-school Django developers. I had the privilege to meet them and spend some social time with them at a past PyCon and I saw some of the attitudes firsthand, but they were remarkably more muted and respectable in person. Online, well...