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by tome 2107 days ago
> ... /r/haskell is a pretty toxic wasteland. The responses to this very article on /r/haskell are a great place to find what I'm talking about at a general level.

If anyone wants to read through that thread to see exactly how toxic /r/haskell is they can find it here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/io3c11/essay_found...

1 comments

> The author in question may be a bit of a cracked pot.

> I genuinely tried to read this and take it seriously but this is just the most cringe-worthy thing I've read in ages. I'm sorry.

> As a composition of prose, this little essay is just stylistically terrible and reallllly hard to read.

> A really dumb essay.

Just from the one post.

Do you think any frustration is warranted for all of that articles false claims?

I disagree with the cracked pot comment, that goes too far.

It is pretty cringe-worthy, is it toxic to point that out?