[coldtea]

And there are also people who have built even harder projects than V, but can still criticize projects with issues and rant with the best of them!

The absolute dichotomy being "doers" and "criticizers" is false. Linus could criticize things just fine.

[_andrei_]

Doers can of course criticize, but serious devs won't bash a new and unfinished language, just because the author of the project had the audacity to promise something "so unrealistic".

Healthy people saw V, maybe read about it, saw the great promises, and thought "Ha, that sounds unlikely, but it's not a bad idea, it would be insane if this worked! Shoot for the stars, aim for the moon.".

For others, the promises were outrageous and anything remotely close to them "impossible". I don't get why it got personal for some of us, and it's stupid how involved people were over the years (hey Xe, you're so skilled, why waste your energy) into bashing this random project.

[scns]

Have seen Linus giving the finger to Nvidia, but not ranting on a forum about a new language.

[dmytrish]

Here you go: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

[kaba0]

This website boils my blood every time it comes up - like look at their considered harmful list, it is seriously ridiculous.

[delian66]

I did not know that C++ is new in 2007 ...

[coldtea]

I have seen Joe Armstrong, Alan Kay, Paul Graham, and many others ranting about other languages in many ocassions...