Comment by TZubiri
5 hours ago
>Phantomderp and I
>Furry avatar
>"About Me I am Aria Desires, Gankra, and a cat."
I seem to recall reading this before, I must have not noticed this furry stuff because I would have ignored it.
My take was that this is a rustacean who was having trouble porting something to C and then went in a deep rabbit hole of C traiditional software, and instead of recognizing that perhaps they are in way over their head, they concluded that the issue was in the C, that it's all wrong and therefore their mission of porting stuff to Rust is even more virtuous.
This is just an ad hominem attack. Doesn't seem like the author is "in over their head"; they seem to have a pretty solid grasp of actual identifiable gaps between implementations and various specs, and the article was written with the same kind of "chastising" tone as you would see from any grey-bearded hacker who's unsatisfied with the way things are.
I hate to make judgments without a mountain of evidence, but a cursory glance of their about page honestly made me think this person likely suffers from a multitude of mental health issues.
I think we can be accomodating of a wide array of diagnosable mental conditions in software. I'm thinking of Terry King's TempleOS, Ken Reitz's Requests.
Being upfront about it by authors dispels a lot of the potential tension and substantially changes the way we interact. I understand there may be a conflict and not everyone will want to advertise their diagnosis, but in my experience once it becomes clear that's what's going on, it helps all the parties involved.
It is exactly as you describe.