I don't have a position to defend, and I am nobody to make any statements of any significance: I did a code review, and I was critical about it. If anything, I want the project to succeed. Evidence? [1]
He asked me why I thought Rust would've live for long, and I spent hours reading the code and writing a detailed coherent comment to the best of my ability. He dismisses my comment as "FUD" [2] and responds with one-liners. The final comment with a link to his blog with colorful graphs was terribly condescending. Him being a lead developer doesn't mean squat to me: a bad argument from him is still a bad argument.
No, I'm not going to stoop to begging for scraps: if I wanted to do that, I'd be using proprietary software; Apple or Microsoft nonsense. In this world, the maintainer is the one who has to take the effort to educate potential contributors. He is clearly doing a terrible job, and I pointed that out.
No, I never accused him of lying. I accused him of making a bad argument, and not giving me sufficient information to post a counter-argument, which is exactly what he did.
And no, I did not "defend" my original argument: I posted a fresh review of fresh code (the one in src/libstd/rt, as opposed to the one in src/rt).
On the point of tone. Yes, I've spent many years on harsh mailing lists and my language is a product of that experience. Are you going to discriminate against me because of that, irrespective of the strength of the argument?
I will repeat this once more: the only currency in a rational argument is the strength of your argument; don't play the authority card.
He asked me why I thought Rust would've live for long, and I spent hours reading the code and writing a detailed coherent comment to the best of my ability. He dismisses my comment as "FUD" [2] and responds with one-liners. The final comment with a link to his blog with colorful graphs was terribly condescending. Him being a lead developer doesn't mean squat to me: a bad argument from him is still a bad argument.
No, I'm not going to stoop to begging for scraps: if I wanted to do that, I'd be using proprietary software; Apple or Microsoft nonsense. In this world, the maintainer is the one who has to take the effort to educate potential contributors. He is clearly doing a terrible job, and I pointed that out.
No, I never accused him of lying. I accused him of making a bad argument, and not giving me sufficient information to post a counter-argument, which is exactly what he did.
And no, I did not "defend" my original argument: I posted a fresh review of fresh code (the one in src/libstd/rt, as opposed to the one in src/rt).
On the point of tone. Yes, I've spent many years on harsh mailing lists and my language is a product of that experience. Are you going to discriminate against me because of that, irrespective of the strength of the argument?
I will repeat this once more: the only currency in a rational argument is the strength of your argument; don't play the authority card.
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/commits/master?author=artagn...
[2]: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/362413302422323201