Thoughts
I’ve been on Lobsters for only a little while, but it seems much more toxic than HN. Which is really weird.
> “Tiny self-contained software”. Huh? What are you even on about here? Do you think million line projects are tiny? Ones which do use numerous third party dependencies? And all written in Odin? And even the Odin compiler itself is not “tiny” and has loads of stuff.
> I’m sorry but your argument makes little sense and misses the point of the argument being presented, and your hypothesis is just flat out wrong.
This reminds me of like deathaxe’s tone. I think it’s a rhetorical device where you create a sentence fragment off of the previous sentence fragment. “And all written in Odin” is a sentence fragment on its own. It simultaneously builds on the sentence fragment before “ones which do use third party dependencies” and the sentence after starts with a conjunction “and all written in…”. It gives the impression of a sputtering furious person.
Whether or not it’s meant this way, I find it hard to engage with rationally.
Here’s another quote from a different user on the same thread:
> You know what the iOS App Store is? Yeah I just blew your mind. Just extended the analogy right there. You could talk for hours about this.
Obviously very different in terms of tone, but note the sentence fragment, “Just extended the analogy right there.”