[ajvs]

If you take criticism of any activity you partake in as being "damned rude" and a violation of site T&C, then there'd never be any discussion at all.

You are not your job, and prepare yourself for listening to honest criticism of the things you base your identity around or you will find it very difficult to learn and grow.

[pencilguin]

It was not the criticism that was damned rude. Criticize anything you like, or don't.

What was rude and, frankly, hateful, was the call to demote or lay off all C++ programmers.

[ayberk]

Apologies if it came as rude or hateful, that wasn't my intention.

Funny thing is I'm a C++ programmer myself right now as I mentioned :) Even if we decide to "deprecate" C++ today, Google alone would have large enough C++ codebase left to maintain for the next two generation of programmers.

So no, I don't think it means we should demote or fire all C++ programmers -- but at the same time I'd like to note that as a programmer no one should be married to a single language -- languages come and go.