I've been following this discussion closely because I work in adjacent areas and have dipped into Coq and Agda. Now that I see it on hackernews and all sorts of comments speculating on how this is cancel culture and English-centric chauvinism I'm really disappointed. Sometimes you lack the social context to evaluate the merits of a discussion so you default to your image of the most plausible motivation and it says a lot in this case. A popular idea here is the "gellman amnesia effect", yes? Well I'm definitely not going to forget this in the broader context every time a post comes around baiting culture war rhetoric.

Unfortunately some women actually in the Coq community discussing this on Twitter noticed they were getting all of a sudden a lot more engagement with concern trolls around the time this submission gained traction. "intellectual curiosity" indeed. I hope its worth it, this place existing. I think I can find a replacement though so I'm logging off indefinitely.