Blow is a smart guy who thinks he's far smarter and far more interesting than he really is. Smart people who don't seek out feedback, and especially those who haven't worked in a team environment, tend to be pretty bad at estimating the limit of their capabilities.
Does Blow have a mentor? Friends who call his BS out?
He does seek feedback, that is why there is a closed beta. I would say he is quick to flip the bozo bit, and easily irritable, but that is also a consequence of having an audience that is large enough to be annoying but too small to just ignore.
A good number of your bullet points are factually incorrect and inflammatory. But to reply in the style of Blow: what have _you_ released in the past ten years to talk all this smack?
I'd say my work has gone in the hands of a few million people and made their lives (mostly) better, along with what all of my coworkers did.
But most importantly, I'm not out there telling people that they suck, they're bad programmers. I'm not the one out there telling people that GC bad, memory ownership bad but also you're stupid if you can't free() memory properly. I'm not the one out there rejecting decades of PL theory, calling academics "believers" and "wrong" [0], I'm not the one throwing shade at every other language, and when criticized on my language, fall back to "uuuuh I make Jai for myself you don't have to use it"
Anyways, if you want a real systems language that's available today and that actually works, Odin exists.
Don't they get tired of being wrong, too? I've used software from these types of people and their stuff crashes and segfaults as much or more than their equivalents, certainly than the rust equivalents I use.
Please don't adopt this line of reasoning. Anyone's argument doesn't have to stand on their personal achievements and public works. Just because you're not a chef doesn't mean you can't call one out if they put rat poison in your food.
I didn't ask for evidence because I know for a fact that he is lying or misinterpreting things to an extent to be considered lying.
Getting into the beta has nothing to do with being a good or bad programmer. It's not about Blow's ego or criticizing the language, it's about keeping a modicum of respect about a decade's worth of work and not being an ass.
If the ad-homimem's didn't disqualify his whole post, the smell of his butt-hurt would.
PS. As a factual contradiction, documentation is provided with every compiler version and it currently stands at ~32K lines of very well commented example code touching almost every feature of the language.
No you can not apply via twitch chat, and again, there's no genuflecting. Stop listening the assholes with axes to grind. You can ask about it in twitch chat and probably get an answer, but I think you must show an interest more than "I heard about this thing on HN, I want to try it NOW".
Can you clarify? How is showing interest "genuflecting"?
I understand how open-source has lowered the general threshold for having access to other people's work, but the entitlement your post exudes is a bit sickening.
These aren't the kinds of things where evidence is readily available. If you have a reputation to stake on certain claims, that makes me more inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Why is it that you want to tone police me (when I was actually trying to be facetiously funny) instead of parent with his virulent ad-hominem's towards two industry veterans which probably have done more for the field of computer science than most of us commenting in this thread combined (at least until Walter drops in).
