Yeah, Eelco is the original author of Nix and continues to to maintain it.
I think all you're missing is my point. ;)
My point is not that it's automatically a huge deal whether Infinisil (or anyone) disapproves of this or that development in the community. But that nobody deserves to be dismissed with a backhanded I-hope-my-attempt-to-discredit-you-doesn't-discredit-you 'go touch grass' comment. And that I think within the Nix(OS) community there's basic neighborly recognition that is clearly missing here (on HN).
Ah! I misunderstood your comment. I thought you meant the original post(s) on discourse were disrespectful.
Totally agree that “go touch grass” is a disrespectful take.
These are a bunch of O.G. hackers who’ve invested a portion of their life into a significantly underfunded problem statement in our industry.
They deserve respect and our industry is better for them spending their time the way they did.
I’m personally very thankful these folks exist and are as passionate as they are. It gives me hope that one day I’ll work with a package manager in production that does more than just YOLO unpack an archive file into a global namespace followed by some hopefully deterministic shell scripts.
I think all you're missing is my point. ;)
My point is not that it's automatically a huge deal whether Infinisil (or anyone) disapproves of this or that development in the community. But that nobody deserves to be dismissed with a backhanded I-hope-my-attempt-to-discredit-you-doesn't-discredit-you 'go touch grass' comment. And that I think within the Nix(OS) community there's basic neighborly recognition that is clearly missing here (on HN).