On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 21:03:14 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 19:50:55 UTC, claptrap wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 12:50:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 07:26:25 UTC, claptrap wrote:
I personally found this talk very disappointing. Walter is
the head honcho and he's giving talks on coding guidelines?
Its like visiting the F1 engineering workshop and getting a
talk on health and safety.
Tell us the engine, about what you're working on, some
gnarly problem you've solved, or something cool.
Walter's a contributor to this open source project like
anyone else. He's going to give talks on whatever strikes his
interest at the time. If he was a CEO with a 7-figure salary
like Mitchell Baker, things would be different.
Hes not like everyone else he's...
"Walter bright creator of the D Programming Language"
That means he's contributed a lot in the past, so he has more
freedom, not less, in choosing what to talk about.
I have never once said he cant talk about whatever he wants to,
I've explicitly said the opposite. All I said is that by virtue
of who he is has more interesting things to talk about than
whether "enum { yes, no }" is a good idea or not.
Your post is an example of a contribution tax. Those that do
the most work on a project are held to a higher standard than
everyone else, and they are the ones most open to criticism,
including public criticism. It's one reason productive
contributors leave open source projects, and why many people
turn down leadership positions.
Maybe we should hold people to lower standards the higher up they
get and see how that works out?
