[mburee]

Also sway, but hacker news doesn't always hold him in that high of an opinion, probably mostly of his Rust criticisms...

But I use many of his tools, all top notch!

[sam_lowry_]

HN is not one voice. Lots of people here admire his work.

[mrzool]

For what it's worth, I'm an HN user and hold Drew and his work in very high regard.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

He has over 25k karma on here. The data doesn't fit your assertion.

[capableweb]

I'm not worthy of high opinion yet I also have ~25k karma. Karma matters less than you think.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Well, I'm not suggesting HN karma is some kind of indicator of merit, only that it's the best indicator we have of whether someone's held in a high opinion on HN, which is what GGP was talking about.

[mrcus]

Why do you feel the need to bring this up?