[ModernMech]

It’s not weird considering what we’ve learned through this: the Zig project is driven by people with fragile emotions and egos who lash out at people personally when they feel threatened.

We’d like Zig to be a project with steady and technically driven leadership like Rust, but Kelley has made clear (many times) it’s more of an egoistic vanity project like Elm, designed to cater to the emotional needs of the BDFL.

[tommica]

Calling them egoistic is quite a claim - do you have facts to back that claim with?

[howling]

Andrew Kelley described Github employees as 'monkeys' and 'losers'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065366

[ModernMech]

Yes, I’ll cite “the juicy grapevine” and that should be enough given the evidentiary standards people are setting here.