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It was obvious to some of us that De Goes was targeted for political reasons, in a nasty example of cancel culture coordinated by one of John’s OSS competitors within the Scala ecosystem.

Since then the ringleader of this cancel culture has been exposed for what he is - an aggressive and politically motivated stalker who built tools for forensically analyzing people’s social media history and associations, shared lists of targets, lengthy public character assassinations, doxxing etc. As a measure of his extreme views, even paulg was included in his ‘hate speech graph’

Sadly this stalker also managed to coordinate the complete cancellation of at least one other prominent member of the Scala community before the community realized what was going on.

There are extreme personalities in the Scala world. As a language, it attracts mathematical purists with deep specialism. This makes it a magnet for aspies (no offense intended. I am autistic).