Comment by famouswaffles

2 days ago

>that's just an experiment that has no chance of being merged

Yeah he never said that.

> This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

  • Is your reading comprehension poor? Where in that does it say it had no chance of being merged? Do you understand what an experiment and what the purpose of an experiment is ?

Here is him saying that in words that could be interpreted as ‘this is just an experiment’: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

  • Right he said it was an experiment. Nowhere did he say there was no chance of it being merged. Do people not understand what an experiment is?

    • Of course he's not writing a legal contract, but to go from saying:

      > This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely.

      And then fully merging into main in under 18 days is quite extreme