[nikofeyn]

isn't this a little demanding and entitled? for example, the submitter of this post to hacker news may not be the creator of the language and repository. so the creator is off just having some fun creating a language, with more than minimal documentation, and uploads it to github to track changes and generally make it public. then someone thinks it's interesting and posts it here, and the top comment is someone with too aggressive of a tone, in my opinion.

[kierenj]

I don't think it's aggressive at all. They're literally presenting a language. A language. They talk about its virtues but I mean come on, how do you introduce a language?

Bonjour!

[mcphage]

> isn't this a little demanding and entitled?

No.

The poster shared it to HN because they want other people to look at it. Which is fine, but they're asking for our attention, and they need to respect that fact—and us—and not waste our time. Sharing a new language but making us dig around to understand one of the most fundamental things about the language—what the code looks like—does not respect us, our time, or our attention. If that's a problem, they can keep it a private repo, and not share it on HN.

[nikofeyn]

you missed my point of the poster not necessarily being the creator of the repository.

[andrewflnr]

The point of posting things on a site with comments is so people can comment on them. Even if we knew for a fact that the poster wasn't the creator, it would still be appropriate to comment on an annoying aspect of the project.

[V-2]

Poster's user handle is petar, and petar happens to have merged the latest PR in Ko repository, so I'd say there's a pretty good chance it is the same person.

[yiyus]

I am quite sure the reason my comment is at top is not because other readers appreciate my tone (which I don't find aggressive, although I admit it could be nicer) but because of the link.