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> Sounding and being are not the same thing. I'm familiar with his stated opinions regarding both generics, and syntax highlighting. They check both the "sounding" and "being" boxes quite nicely.
Dude has worked on UTF-8, Plan 9, and a very popular language despite its flaws. I am not accomplished enough to judge him. Nor have I had the pleasure to meet him in person to pass any judgement. I don’t get this obsession with tone policing, probably borne of corporate tendency towards blandness and inoffensiveness. The vast majority of interesting people are eccentric and with their unfiled corners, it’s part and…
That's weird, considering I was saying he was wrong about something. That's not tone policing? The breathless hero worship in your comment is ironically a much more insidious form of tone policing.
> The vast majority of interesting people are eccentric and with their unfiled corners, it’s part and parcel of being outstanding in your field.
When you grow up, you'll (hopefully) learn that "being loudly and confidently wrong a lot" and "being unpleasant to work with" are not in fact correlated with any particular metrics of technical success, nor are they part of being an "interesting person". Quite the opposite in fact! (Although TBF it does correlate pretty well with certain measures of "success" and longevity in business and large organizations.)
I don't actually know very much about Rob Pike, but the two issues I've heard his opinions on, they were both wrong and poorly argued. I appreciate you don't think I should be able to say this, but I don't think your tone policing is appropriate for this web site.