[jonquark]

For those (like me) who didn't understand what MINASWAN means, it stands for Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN

[chuckadams]

Not that he has any real power here, but has anyone asked Matz what he thinks about all this?

[kimos]

He usually just stays out of this stuff.

The funny thing about inventing a language you love, is you spend your career writing C rather than actually writing code in the language you love.

[em-bee]

pike devs put it this way: we are writing C so you don't have to.

[dismalaf]

He's pretty tight lipped about his opinions. He does seem to get along with DHH and Tobi though, he shared a stage with them at one Rails World...

Also I doubt the culture warriors are going to get what they want from Matz, he's a devout Mormon, a religious group known for conservative beliefs.

[thebrog]

It's usually conservative religious groups that are culture warriors, so this would be getting what they want