[kentonv]

I think the negativity here is just because fundraising announcements (especially massive ones) tend to attract that kind of response. Admittedly fundraising announcements are not very interesting to an audience wanting to know what the product actually does. But I think what buf is building is not very controversial, it's just developer tooling that obviously should exist and doesn't for some reason, maybe because Google owns Protobuf but Google doesn't really have a strong incentive to make sure external developers have everything they need here.

Happy to answer emails but can't guarantee I have anything interesting to say.