[ModernMech]

Right I think the correct term is “character assassination”. It starts by calling him a novice, goes on to call him a “stinky manager”, and then lands the deepest cut possible in this profession: his code sucks. At least Kelley thanked him for his money.

This is not refreshing, I usually expect better from Kelley. The best move would have been to say nothing at all except “best of luck, Zig will miss him but”. Now all Ziglings must wonder if they’re going to receive a hit piece from the Zig founder if they cross him.

[jazzypants]

Do you think that all ziglings refuse to write idiomatic code, have public fights with the language maintainers, and then write giant blog posts about how they're ditching the language because it just isn't good enough?

[p0nce]

In D we've had several angry rants of people saying they were leaving D (it doesn't happen as often since most things got fixed) for other pastures and the leadership has never acted in an unprofessional way.

[tomnipotent]

> have public fights with the language maintainers

Can you point to even one such example?

[jazzypants]

Here you go

https://xcancel.com/bunjavascript/status/2048427636414923250

https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio...

How many other Zig users publicly announced their unrequested fork of the language?

[tomnipotent]

It this a joke? Your example of Jarred starting fights in public is announcing fork then pointing to a thread where he didn't even participate but rather where members of the Zig community are slinging mud?

> unrequested fork

No such thing exists.