I would appreciate, for you to not speak about the V community and V devs, which consists of many people (660 contributors currently), with various positions and attitudes, including me.
I have not spoken about anyone being a salty rival, whatever that means.
The lead developer and very vocal community members brigade HN every time V is mentioned. They form the basis of my opinion of your whole community — you maybe should send some more measured voices here if you feel they don’t represent you. The impression they give off has informed my opinion, and if you don’t like that it’s your job to change my opinion through positive interactions. Meanwhile I’ll voice my opinion as much as I like thank you very much.
The words in quotes are from what appear to be ambassadors of the V language here on HN. If you feel they don’t represent your community, maybe ask them to stop brigading instead of asking me to shut my mouth? Just another example of the V community I guess…
My job, thank God, is not to please entitled rude people on HN.
If you have some problem, you can simply address people individually, without attacking an entire community of many, that share a common interest in a programming language.
Sadly, that's not how community management and representation works, and you should know that. If the people in the V community who post here aren't representative of the V community, then maybe send community members who have better people skills.
The people you send are the people who represent all of you. Sorry if you think that's unfair, but that's the reputation you're building. That's not on me, that's on you.
Think all you want about me, I'm nobody. But it's clear that the same handful of V community members (including the lead dev) show up every single time V is mentioned. So if you feel their voices don't represent the V community, talk to them instead of telling me to (in so many words) STFU. Cause that aint happening. Because they're all I see of V.
@ModernMech, you can just address people here individually, and not refer to them as V developers or V community - that currently is already too broad and paints people that you do not know at all, with the same paint, be it bright or dark.
It is the same, as asking you to not talk about all Australians, all Chinese or all Bulgarians, when you mean the actions of specific people/individuals.
That is all I am asking for, and I think that is not difficult to understand.
What you and your community do on HN reflects on you, regardless of what anyone else does. You're earning your reputation one post at a time. I mean, several of your posts here are dead and flagged. Take a hint. Your evangelism isn't working here, it's doing the opposite of what you want.
My suggestion is to work on your C++ to V translation engine instead of posting here. Maybe you'll move it past the early stage.
> You're spamming this thread and with your anti V attacks, have a bunch of them downvoted and flagged, and are teaching me about communication...
> So rude indeed.
I count ~10 comments across three comment threads, most of which are responses. It's a bit scummy to characterize this as "spamming anti-V attacks".
I never claimed to be anything, and I have no dead or flagged comments.
But I'm an asshole. I'm very rude and blunt. That's a given. Never claimed otherwise. But I'm not the leader of a community I'm trying to build. That's you. You need to take a higher road if you want to build a positive reputation. Or you can roll around with pigs like me and get a reputation for being muddy.
The fact that you turn it back to me personally when you should be standing on the merits of your work says everything I need to know about you and your community. Change my mind.
> I never claimed to be anything, and I have no dead or flagged comments.
You just said yourself, that you are an asshole, rude and blunt, after insulting a whole community of people ... Have you thought, that maybe you should stop?
> Or you can roll around with pigs like me and get a reputation for being muddy.
I am a farmer. I live in a village in Bulgaria, and I've had to deal with actual pigs before from time to time... Pigs should know their place, and it is not, where people discuss ideas.
Think it's way more about detractors trying to push a negative narrative on the language, than it's any kind of reflection of the community, who are elsewhere.
I have not spoken about anyone being a salty rival, whatever that means.
Thanks in advance.