[theGimp]

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[nurettin]

I wouldn't say things like "gratuitous negativity" to anyone's face IRL. That would come off as annoying at best when two adults are trying to have a conversation.

[coldtea]

Who said he wouldn't say those things in a face-to-face conversation?

And what's uncivil about them?

[theGimp]

What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.

[rodgerd]

Yet you didn't feel the need to lecture the parent comment for s snide dismissal of a programming language and everyone who uses it.

[coldtea]

>What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

To defend their technology/language of choice, who they felt was undeservingly dismissed as obsolete?

>The same point could have been made without the condescension.

I think the "less competition" is a valid point. People that dismiss languages as "old" or not fashionable enough, often miss opportunities in niche areas -- case in point all the COBOL jobs.