I can't imagine being someone like Andrew, or any BDFL of a popular open source project, and having to deal with folks like this. Imagine posting a timed output of your compiler on a thread about a similar language's slow compiler and having someone cite this as bad behavior.

Anyway, the clear absurdity of this particular post aside, it's not OK to call other people monkeys. I make no statement on the quality of their engineering. But they're people! I'd hope to see a quiet dignity from the Zig folks here. They've done so much excellent work, and I'm sure it's frustrating to see what software can be and then have it sharply laid against what software often is. But kindness is always the way.

Thanks to everyone involved with Zig for their work and love of software!

> Imagine posting a timed output of your compiler on a thread about a similar language's slow compiler and having someone cite this as bad behavior.

That was the entirety of the contribution. It was gloating. And there is a long history of this.

There's open source contributions, and then there's this.

> Anyway, the clear absurdity of this particular post aside, it's not OK to call other people monkeys.

You don't see how the two are related?