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(joke in the title stolen from a redditor)

Context: some Rust kid vandalized cppreference.com today.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But definitely one of the biggest factors that should be considered is how assholeish the community around a particular language is.

I think all of the factors you've mentioned are extremely valid, but this is the one factor that I think should absolutely not count into whether something's a 'good' or 'bad' language. If I'm choosing which technologies to use for my next project, the question of whether it has a rude vocal minority in its community is AS FAR DOWN on my list as possible. Right next to whether its name is hip or whether their homepage is engaging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A toxic community won't help you in good faith when you're running into issues, and this makes it harder to develop using a language with a toxic community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

idk, how do I contact "the community" when I have an issue in the first place? All I know of is StackOverflow, and they're honestly toxic enough to make me never ask questions there in the first place.