[bradgessler]

If the language is “just a detail”, then why go through the trouble of writing about your distaste of new syntax features in Ruby? Using new language features does not categorically hurt or help “create value for customers”.

[notjoemama]

Not the originator, addressing only your question, the hacker news commenting system is a form social media. People are free to comment as they see fit and for reasons that make sense to them, within certain guidelines that don’t appear to apply here. My impression is your comment, and previously theirs, is an airing of grievance. Which is common and par for the course in social media spaces. My intention in commenting is to give a voice to what is typically an unspoken understanding.