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It may read this way to you but that’s the nature of blogs. They’re public diaries. Narcissism is often part of the medium itself.
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That's not an apology, that's an excuse, and there aren't many of those to justify treating people badly.
The Jai comment in the article is funny.
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Imagine realizing you wasted a decade of your life in the false hope of making a difference, but couldn’t because of a dysfunctional community dynamic… I can’t because I haven’t done that, and perhaps you can’t either. It may read this way to you but that’s the nature of blogs. They’re public diaries. Narcissism is often part of the medium itself.
The author seems depressed and is displacing their frustrations onto a programming language. A programming language isn't going to bring you real joy, that can only come from within.
That's somewhat of a curse when it comes to (most) software engineering, but doubly so for languages like C++ which:
1. Have many decades of baggage (40 + C's baggage from before).
2. Have backwards compatibility and non-breakage as one of their goals.
3. Are not designed by a single person or unified entity, but by a committee representing a diverse array (excuse the pun) of interested parties.
4. Have a slow evolution process which favors consensus and partial and gradual adoption of ideas.
Such a language will inadvertently fail to satisfy the author's sensibilities and expectations. He is certain to get frustrated about issues with the language which don't get addressed, proposals which come up and languish for years and years, limited changes which seem half-assed, etc. - and that's even without being active in the circles around the standards committee.
That's as far as the language is concerned.
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I can't speak to what people in those circles are like personally; I've never been in touch with any of them except barely with one or two (and one was nicer while the other not so much). But I can certainly relate to developing a dislike for a programming language because you've seen "how the sausage is made" and have an aversion to it.
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> I’ve sadly burnt all of my energy the last 10 years on C++.
I've had this happen in other initiatives in my life. You want to give something your all, really take it forward, you have good ideas, which people even recognize, if pressed, as such - but it's like you're trying to push an elephant in one direction or another (or an Ent, I guess). It just won't budge, and when you try to hard you get chaffed at best and injured at worst. And there's often zero recognition of your effort.
> The last 10 years of my life writing C++ in a professional context were a complete waste of time that I will never get back. I have nothing to show for it. I don't get this part. The language you write something in has little to do with how useful the software is. I've had years writing fulfilling software, and years where I was just spinning my wheels.
The author was mostly referring to his efforts to improve the language, not to write some app or library in C++.
What is the context of Bjarne being disgusted? Just years of arguing?
I think the author was insinuating that Bjarne didn't like their appearance (author seems some flavour of trans).
Oh, if that's the case:
https://github.com/tulip-lang/tulip
> I need your help! Especially if you are queer/trans, disabled, a woman, and/or a person of color, and in that case especially if you think you don't know anything about compilers.
So there are niche languages for everyone. I had hoped Tulip would go somewhere, but after so long I lost interest.